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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 21, 1989Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1989, 6:02 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 1989, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 1989, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 58 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, 0.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 220002
SVRPUB
COC061-220100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
602 PM MDT SUN MAY 21 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
      CENTRAL KIOWA

 THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...EADS...
 BRANDON...CHIVINGTON...SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER.

ENTER IN THIS AREA: LOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF STORM...
AT 558 PM MDT RADAR INDICATAED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH
OF EADS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED
10 MILES NORTH OF KIT CARSON IN CHEYENNE COUNTY WITH THIS STORM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY WITHOUT DELAY IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

CASEY

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 21, 4:22 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
420 PM MDT SUN MAY 21 1989

AT 420 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A LARGE THUNDERSTORM EAST OF
THE TOWN OF HUGO IN LINCOLN COUNTY COLORADO ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH
EAST OF LIMON COLORADO MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG
GUSTY WIND.

PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING UPDATES ON LOCAL WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
HUBER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 6:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	52 min
May 21, 6:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.