Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1990, 4:19 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1990, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1990, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 21 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 2059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 092219
SVRPUB
COC099-092315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
419 PM MDT MON APR 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTHERN PROWERS
AT 355 PM MDT DTHIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON A SPOTTER IN THE TOWN OF
KORRMAN COLORADO...ABOUT 43 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA COLORADO..
REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST
AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THE TOWNS OF BRISTOL AND HOLLY ARE IN THE PATH OF
THE STORM. THE STORM SHOULD REACH HOLLY COLORADO BY ABOUT 5PM.
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.
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 jINTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
MOOREWhat 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, Apr 9, 12:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
COZALL-092000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 1250 PM MDT MON APR 9 1990 ...PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... AT 1245 PMEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 7 MILES WEST OF ALAMOSA ANDHERN COLORADO THIS MORNING...BETWEEN 530 AND 630 CONDITION SOUTH OF PUEBLO ...ON I-25 TO WALSENBURG DENSE FOG VISIBILITY WAS ZERO AT TIMES... FROM PUEBLO TO WALSENBURG SNOW COVER WAS 1" WITH WALSENBURG HAVING 1-2" ON THE GROUND...BETWEEN 630 AND 730 FROM WALSENBURG TO LA VETA AND FT. GARLAND PATCHY FOG 3" SNOW OVER LA VETA 1" AT FT. GARLAND. ROAD CONDITIONS WERE SLUSHY AND ICY FROM WALSENBURG TO PUEBLO...WALSENBURG TO LAVETA AND INTO FT GARLAND SNOWPACKED AND ICY. IMPROVING CONDITIONS THE REST OF THE DAY OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND LOOK FOR PLENTY OF SUNSHINE OVER THE WEEKEND ALONG WITH A WARMING TREND AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS. A RETURN TO SPRING WEATHER EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. GALLEGOS/BARNETT
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 12:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
COZ009-092000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 1250 PM MDT MON APR 9 1990 ...PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... AT 1245 PM PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 7 MILES WEST OF ALAMOSA AND THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST. HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND DECREASE BY THIS EVENING. GALLEGOS/BARNETT
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 1:02 PM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 110 PM MDT MON APR 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING IN EASTERN COLORADO... AT 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON RADAR REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE TOWNS OF YODER AND RUSH IN EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY OF COLORADO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CON TINUE OVER MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING BEFORE DISIPATING THIS EVEN. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO ANY RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITION. HAVILL
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:24 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 320 PM MDT MON APR 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 315 PM THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND SOME SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF PUEBLO IN PUEBLO COUNTY COLORADO AND OTHERS IN KIOWA COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF EADS AND 10 MILES EAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE BOTH IN KIOWA COUNTY. STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY OCCUR ESPECIALLY IN THE CENTRAL AND EAST PARTS OF KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL ABOUT 530 PM. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD BE WATCHFUL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND SLOW DOWN IF DRIVING WHEN VISIBILITY IS REDUCED. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH MOVING WATER. PARENTS SHOULD KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM FAST MOVING WATER. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE STORMS MOORE
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.