Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1990, 7:13 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1990, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1990, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 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 00:00Z, 1.2 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
- 3316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 260113
SVRPUB
COC061-260215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
713 PM MDT MON JUN 25 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
EASTERN KIOWA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
BRANDON...SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER.
AT 705 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
BRANDON...ABOUT 56 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA. HAIL WAS
INDICATED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. THIS STORM
SHOULD MOVE ACROSS SHERIDAN LAKE BEFORE 730 PM MDT.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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.What 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 25, 1:37 PM MDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
COC014-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 130 PM MDT MON JUN 25 1990 ... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AROUND THE PIKES PEAK REGION ... AT 125 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH ...SOUTH AND EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN EL PASO COUNTY. THESE HIGH BASE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. ALSO... REPORTS CAME IN TODAY OF SOME PROPERTY DAMAGE AT CALHAN...EL PASO COUNTY...FROM A STRONG DUST DEVIL THAT MOVED THROUGH THE TOWN OF CALHAN SUNDAY EVENING AT ABOUT 8PM MDT. SIMILAR WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY PRODUCE THESE ISOLATED DUST DEVILS TODAY AS 0WELL...ESPECIALY OUT OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS. PERSONS ARE ADIVISED TO STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
COC014-252130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 230 PM MDT MON JUN 25 1990 ... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE AROUND THE PIKES PEAK REGION ... AT 225 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH AND 15 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN EL PASO COUNTY. THESE HIGH BASE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON...LINCOLN COUNTY...AND EAST OF FLAGLER IN KIT CARSON COUNTY COLORADO. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:22 PM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
COC014-252230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 330 PM MDT MON JUN 25 1990 ... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE AROUND THE PIKES PEAK REGION ... AT 325 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF LIMON IN KIT CARSON COUNTY AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO. THESE HIGH BASE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:39 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
COZ0-015-016-017-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 333 PM MDT MON JUNE 25 1990 ...GUSTY WINDS IN PUEBLO... THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA HAVE BROUGHT SOME COOLING AS THE CLOUD COVER INCREASED IN THE LAST HOUR. AT 327 PM MDT A WIND GUST TO 51 MPH WAS RECORDED AT PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT. THE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO THROUGH THIS EVENING. AT 337 PM THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. GALLEGOS
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:27 PM MDT, 46 minutes before
COC014-260130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 625 PM MDT MON JUN 25 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO... AT 625 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS CHEYENNE COUNTY WITH THE STRONGEST CELLS 10 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF CHEYENNE WELLS... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...15 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS AND 15 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS. THESE HIGH BASE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME RAIN...SMALL HAIL... GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST. HUBER
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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.