Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1990, 4:48 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 1990, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1990, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 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 12:00Z, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 172248
SVRPUB
COC061-172345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
448 PM MDT MON SEP 17 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
WESTERN KIOWA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...HASWELL...
GALATEA AND EADS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL WAS REPORTED OVER HASWELL COLORADO
IN WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY AT 442 PM MDT AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MILES AN HOUR.
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 INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
CASEYWhat 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, Sep 17, 1:44 PM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
COZ009-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 140 PM MDT MON SEP 17 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... SHORTLY AFTER 1200 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING RAPIDLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF ALAMOSA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST. AT 138 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE TOWN OF MONTE VISTA APPROXIMATELY 17 MILES FROM THE ALAMOSA AIRPORT. PEOPLE NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING UNTIL AT LEAST 9 PM MDT. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH;ES. BENTON
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
COZ014-172235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 335 PM MDT MON SEP 17 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN LINCOLN COUNTY COLORADO... AT 330 MDT...LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LIMON TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. OTHER STORMS ARE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY AS WELL. EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MCCAMMON
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 4:11 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 410 PM MDT MON SEP 17 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAINS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 405 PM MDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINS... WERE SCATTERED AROUND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN BENT COUNTY AND ONE WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS THE HEAVY RAINS MAY ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTERS. THE STORMS WILL DECREASE AFTER SUNSET AND SHOULD END BY MIDNIGNT OV`ER SOUTHEAST COLORADO. CASEY
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 4:27 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COZ014-172335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 435 PM MDT MON SEP 17 1990 ... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE EAST ... AT 430 MDT...LIMON RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...FROM ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON IN NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KARVAL IN SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE PUBLIC HAS REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME qOF THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. PERSONS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CROWLEY
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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.