Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1988, 10:20 AM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1988, 10:20 AM MDT (16:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1988, 10:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers 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 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 021620
TORPUB
COC099-021645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1020 AM MDT MON MAY 2 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
EXTREME EASTERN PROWERS
AT 1012 AM MDT STATE PATROL REPORTED A TORNADO SIX MILES SOUTH OF
HOLLY IN EXTREME EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE TORNADO
WAS NOT KNOWN...THOUGH AN EARLIER REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR
GRANADA SHOWED THE FUNNELL MOVING SOUTHEAST.
RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM IN THE AREA MOVING TO THE SOUTH.
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OU4TRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE
PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG SHELTER. IF
NO SHELTER IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
GRAYWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 2, 8:53 AM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 852 AM MDT MON MAY 2 1988 ...SNOW...THUNDERSTORMS AND WINDS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THE SNOW CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS MANY PARTS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO WITH 4 INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND AT WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 55 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT AT 815 AM MDT THIS MORNING. A THUNDERSTORM WAS IN PROGRESS AT LA JUNTA AT 822 AM. SMALL HAIL/ICE PELLETS WERE REPORTED AT LAMAR AT 840 AM. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ALL DAY WITH GRADUAL DECREASE BY THIS EVENING AS AN INTENSIFIED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DRIFTS SLOWLY EAST ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOTUHEAST COLORADO TODAY AND MOTORISTS WITH HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. GALLEGOS
Special weather statement, May 2, 10:04 AM MDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1003 AM MDT MON MAY 2 1988 ...STRONG WINDS CONTINUE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... A WIND GUST TO 69 MPH WAS RECORDED AT PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT AT 945 AM MDT. AT LA JUNTA A GUST TO 67 MPH WAS RECORDED AT 953 AM. A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO TODAY. GALLEGOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
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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.