Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1990, 3:28 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1990, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1990, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 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, 9.5 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
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPUB 022128
SVRPUB
COC099-022230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
328 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTHEAST PROWERS
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
BRISTOL...GRANADA AND HOLLY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST
OF LAMAR...MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 5 MPH.
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.
NAMEWhat 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, Aug 2, 1:23 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 120 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...THUNDERSTORM WEST OF ALAMOSA SLOWLY MOVING NORTHEAST... AT 115 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVE THE MOUNTAINS APPROXIMATELY 40 MILES WEST OF ALAMOSA. THIS STORM WAS FAIRLY STATIONARY AS IT WAS BUILDING AND INTENSIFYING. AT 115 PM THE STORM WAS STARTING TO SLOWLY MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. A LIGHT RAINSHOWER WAS OCCURRING IN MONTE VISTA AND THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE CAUTION NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR HIGH WINDS, PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN, LIGHTNING, AND DAMAGING HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. BENTON
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
COZ014-022105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 205 PM MDT WED AUG 1 1990 ...THUNDERSTROMS DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND EAST ... AT 200 PM LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND EAST OF LIMON. THE STRONGEST STORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL INDICATED...WERE IN A LINE FROM JUST SOUTH OF BURLINGTON IN KIT CARSON COUNTY...TO KIT CARSON IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTENING AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APP- ROACHES. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
COZ014-022105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 205 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...THUNDERSTROMS DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND EAST ... AT 200 PM LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND EAST OF LIMON. THE STRONGEST STORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL INDICATED...WERE IN A LINE FROM JUST SOUTH OF BURLINGTON IN KIT CARSON COUNTY...TO KIT CARSON IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTENING AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APP- ROACHES. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:19 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
COZ014-022215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 315 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTROMS CONTINUE AROUND THE PIKES PEAK REGION ... AT 310 PM LIMON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AROUND COLORADO SPRINGS AND IN THE MOUNTAINS WEST...AND EAST OF LIMON. THE STRONGEST STORMS ...WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL INDICATED...WERE 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIT CARSON IN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APP- ROACHES. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:19 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-022215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 310 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WERE IN PROWERS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST CELL WAS NEAR BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THIS STORM IN NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTENING AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE SOUTHEAST BORDER COUNTIES. PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER IN YOUR AREA AND MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
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.