Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 4:53 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 5:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 092253
SVRPUB
COC071-092345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
453 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 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
NORTHERN LAS-ANIMAS
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
THATCHER.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF THATCHER IN NORTHERN
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 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.
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ON THmE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY WITHOUT DELAY IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM
MDT.
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, Jun 9, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
COZ009-100200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 248 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. AT 225 PM MDT A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVED OVER THE ALAMOSA AIRPORT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL ACCOMPANIED THIS STORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DAMAGING HAIL...AND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR AREA...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE OF THE DANGER OF FLYING DEBRIS AND DANGER FROM HAIL. BECAUSE OF THE DANGER FROM LIGHTNING...USE THE TELEPHONE ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY. BENTON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:54 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
COZ009-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 248 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. AT 225 PM MDT A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVED OVER THE ALAMOSA AIRPORT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL ACCOMPANIED THIS STORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DAMAGING HAIL...AND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR AREA...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE OF THE DANGER OF FLYING DEBRIS AND DANGER FROM HAIL. BECAUSE OF THE DANGER FROM LIGHTNING...USE THE TELEPHONE ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY. BENTON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
300 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 1990
... TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8PM MDT FOR EL PASO...WESTERN CHEYENNE...
LINCOLN...ELBERT...AND WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTIES OF COLORADO ...
AT 255PM MDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN AND
HAIL...WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN TELLER COUNTY...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH
OF DIVIDE. OTHER STORMS WERE BUILDING ALONG THE FOOTHILLS NORTH AND
SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT
ABOUT 15 MPH.
PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL
RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR WEATHER UPDATES AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE
TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.
CROWLEYSpecial weather statement, Jun 9, 3:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 334 PM MDT SAT JUNE 9 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST... COLORADO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. AT 330 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST HUERFANO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTENING AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. TESAR
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:15 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
COZ009-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 415 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... AS OF 4 PM THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY WAS ON THE DECREASE. AT 225 PM A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVED OVER THE ALAMOSA AIRPORT PRODUCING 40 MPH WIND GUSTS AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH .36 INCH OF RAIN. THE STORM MOVED TO THE EAST. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND 8 PM THIS EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE HEAVY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING SURFACE WINDS...HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR AREA...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE OF THE DANGER OF FLYING DEBRIS AND DANGER FROM HAIL. BECAUSE OF THE DANGER FROM LIGHTNING...USE THE TELEPHONE ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD END AROUND 8 4PM THIS EVENING WITH PARTIAL CLEARING THEREAFTER. CHANCE OF RAIN TONIGHT 60 PERCENT. THERE WILL BE A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. BENTON
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:48 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 445 PM MDT SAT JUNE 9 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST... COLORADO... A THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH PUEBLO PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS ...HEAVY RAIN AND 1/4 INCH SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE CITY AND RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT LOCALLY STRONG WIND AND HEAVY RAINS... ALONG WITH HAIL WHICH COULD BECOME LARGER. THUfNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTENING AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. TESAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
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.