Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1991, 3:19 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1991, 3:19 PM MDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1991, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 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 192119
SVRPUB
COC101-192215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
319 PM MDT WED JUN 19 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
CENTRAL PUEBLO
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
PUEBLO AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER.
AT 315 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 23 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 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.
TESARWhat 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 19, 2:39 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 235 PM MDT WED JUN 19 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 225 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM AT THIS TIME WAS IN EXTREME WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY NEAR MONUMENT PARK...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD. OTHER STORMS WERE IN EASTERN FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES ABOUT 20 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG XWINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST ONTO THE PLAINS.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:14 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 245 PM MDT WED JUN 19 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS... AT 230 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN COSTILLA COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...CAUSING LOW VISIBILITIES WERE REPORTED SOUTHWEST OF ALAMOSA...AND NORTH OF MONTE VISTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL ...DAMAGING GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR UPDATES. BUTLER
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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.