Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1988, 9:03 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1988, 9:03 PM MDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1988, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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, Aug 8, 5:08 PM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 510 PM MDT MOD AUG 8 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH PUEBLO AREA... AT 500 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WIND WAS MOVING THROUGH THE PUEBLO AREA OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PUEBLO AREA...AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF PUEBLO COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THIS THUNDERSTORM. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL COULD ACCOMPANY THE STORM. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER CAN COVER THE ROAD...FLOODING LOW LYING AREAS. OTHERS IN THE PUEBLO AREA SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES TO BE SAFE FROM LIGHTNING. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. GRAY
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 6:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 620 PM MDT MON AUG 8 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVED INTO CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 615 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...WHICH PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE PUEBLO AREA BETWEEN 5 PM AND 6 PM HAD MOVED INTO WESTERN CROWLEY COUNTY. THE STORM WAS 12 MILES NORTH OF FOWLER...IN CROWLEY COUNTY AND WAS MOVING EAST 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PASSED THROUGH PUEBLO BETWEEN 5 PM AND 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING DROPPED 0.38 INCH OF RAIN AT PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN STILL BE EXPECTED WITH STORMS IN CROWLEY COUNTY...ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS. LOCAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN HEAVY RAIN AREAS. PEOPLE IN CROWLEY COUNTY NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. GRAY
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 7:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
800 PM MDT MON AUG 8 1988
...THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY...
AT 755 PM MDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY LIMON RADAR
IN CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF FIRST VIEW. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AND 20 MPH.
THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE HAIL..BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS..LIGHTNING
AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL.
RESIDENTS OF FIRST VIEW AND CHEYENNE WELLS SHOULD BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS
THE COUNTY.
HAVILLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 10:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 35 min |
Nearby
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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.