Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1989, 9:54 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1989, 9:54 PM MDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1989, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 2821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPUB 200354
SVRPUB
COC071-200430-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
954 PM MDT FRI MAY 19 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
SOUTH CENTRAL LAS-ANIMAS
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
TRIDIDAD AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES...
ENTER IN THIS AREA: LOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF STORM...
AT 945 PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WAS
5 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS
STORM DROPPED 3/4 INCH HAIL EAST OF TRINIDAD AT 935 PM
ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS
SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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, May 19, 8:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 820 PM MDT FRI MAY 19 1989 ...THUNDERSTORM IN HUERFANO COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING. AT 810 PM THE STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF LAVETA IN HUERFANO COUNTY WHICH IS 35 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PARTICULARLY RESIDENTS OF WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO FROM CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH NORTHWESTERN OTERO AND SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES INTO NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. TESAR
Special weather statement, May 19, 9:09 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 910 PM MDT FRI MAY 19 1989 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 9 PM MDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WAS IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF IT CONTINUES ITS PRESENT COURSE THE STORM SHOULD BE MOVING OVER THE CITY OF TRINIDAD BY 930 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PARTICULARLY RESIDENTS OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR VERY HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTENING. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUED IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING FROM NORTHWEST LAS 8ANIMAS COUNTY NORTHEAST THROUGH OTERO AND INTO BENT COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. TESAR
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.