Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1990, 4:49 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1990, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1990, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPUB 232249
SVRPUB
COC101-232345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
449 PM MDT MON JUL 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTH AND CENTRAL PUEBLO
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...PUEBLO...
AVONDALE AND BOONE.
AT 445 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY
OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTH 25 MPH.
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 THUNDERSTOR#MS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
GRAYWhat 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, Jul 23, 1:28 PM MDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
COZ014-232100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 130 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... AT 125 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...NORTH AND EAST OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS AND COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHrER APPROACHES. SS
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 1:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-232100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 130 PM MDT MON JUL 23 1990 ...KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTUBANCE IS MOVING OVER COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON ...AND WILL HELP TO KICK OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA INCLUDING SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW STORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER IN THEIR AREA...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LISTEN TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AS THE AFTERNOON GOES ON. TESAR
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 2:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
COZ014-232130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 235 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR EASTERN COLORADO... AT 225 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF EL PASO COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF YODER AND RUSH WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SS
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:24 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
COZ014-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 425 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN ELBERT COUNTY... AT 415 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN ELBERT COUNTY NORTH OF ELIZABETH. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL ...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS KIT CARSON COUNTY NEAR AND SOUTH OF I70 NEAR THE BURLINGTON AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NOTED OVER SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SS
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.