Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1987, 7:10 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1987, 7:10 PM MDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1987, 8:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:46 PM MDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
245 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 1987
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EL PASO COUNTY...
AT 245 PM THIS AFTERNOON RADAR INDICATED VERY STONG THUNDERSTORMS
IN EL PASO COUNTY...ONE WAS ONE MILE EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS
...THE OTHER WAS 5 MILES WEST OF ELLICOTT. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND COULD CONTAIN HAIL...STRONG GUSTY
WIND AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND INTO
NORTHEASTERN COLORADO AND SHOULD CONTINUE UNTIL LATE TONIGHT.
PERSONS IN EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF
THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY.
GURNEYSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 4:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
440 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 1987
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS EVENING.
THE COUNTIES AND CITIES COVERED ARE:
NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY AND THE TOWNS OF CALHAN-RUSH-YODER-SIMLA
ELBERT COUNTY AND THE TOWNS OF ELIZABETH AND KIOWA
NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AND THE TOWN OF LIMON-AGATE HUGO-GENOA-ARRIBA
KIT CARSON COUNTY AND THE TOWNS OF FLAGLER-SEIBERT-STRATTON-BURLINGTON
AND KANORADO.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA AND RESIDENTS SHOULD
STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITION.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.
HAVILLSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 4:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
445 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 1987
...STRONG WINDS IN THE PUEBLO AREA...
GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS DEVELOPED OVER MUCH OF THE PUEBLO
AREA AROUND 415 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE GUSTY WINDS ARE ASSOCIATED
WITH HIGH BASE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND AROUND THE PUEBLO AREA. THE
STRONGEST GUST REPORTED SO FAR WAS 43 MPH AT 434 PM MDT
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING AND INTO TONIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS NEAR STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.
WOODSSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 5:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
520 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 1987
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 605 PM...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 605 PM MDT THIS EVENING.
THE COUNTIES AND CITIES COVERED ARE:
EASTERN ELBERT COUNTY AND THE TOWNS OF AGATE AND RIVER BEND
NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AND THE TOWN OF LIMON-HUGO-GENOA-ARRIBA
KIT CARSON COUNTY AND THE TOWNS OF FLAGLER-SEIBERT-STRATTON-BURLINGTON
AND KANORADO.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA AND RESIDENTS SHOULD
STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITION.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.
HAVILLSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 6:14 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
615 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 1987
...THUNDERSTORMS OVER CHEYENNE CO. COLO...
AT 610 PM RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF
CHEYENNE WELLS IN EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER COND!ITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE
IF NECESSARY.
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.
HAVILLSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 6:35 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 635 PM MDT SUN JUN 28 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OVER EASTERN COLORADO TONIGHT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN ELBERT..NORTHERN LINCOLN AND MOST OF KIT CARSON COUNTIES IN COLORADO HAS EXPIRED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THESE AREAS HOWEVER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER MOST OF EAST CENTRAL ANED NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING AND PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED. HAVILL
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.