Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1991, 5:43 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1991, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1991, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 102350 COR
SVRPUB
COC009-110045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
543 PM MDT FRI MAY 10 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
WEST AND CENTRAL BACA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...PRITCHETT
AND SPRINGFIELD.
AT 538 PM MDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST BACA COUNTY
WEST OF CAMPO...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST 30 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.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
GRAY
...CORRECTION TOv SPELLING IN LOCATION OF STORMS...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, May 10, 4:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
COZ016-017-110030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 420 PM MDT FRI MAY 10 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM MDT... AT 415 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADO FROM NEW MEXICO. THE STORMS HAD JUST CROSSED THE BORDER OF COLORADO AND WERE ALONG THE SOUTHWEST BACA AND SOUTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY LINES AND WERE MOVING NORTH 30 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THEIR AREA. EVEN THOUGH THIS IS GENERALLY OPEN COUNTRY...MAKING UP PART OF THE COMANCHE NATIONAL GRASSLAND... CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR SEVERE STORMS TO DEVELOP. IF THE WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING...HEAD INDOORS TO STURDY SHELTER...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GRAY
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:39 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
COC011>017-110210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 540 PM MDT FRI MAY 10 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH TIL 10 PM MDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO...INCLUDING COLORADO SPRINGS...TIL 10PM MDT TONIGHT. AT 535PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED SHOWERS OVER THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...MOVING NORTH COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 20d MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN AREA COVERAGE INTO THIS EVENING...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. FURTHER UPDATES WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. JKH
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:41 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
COC011>017-110210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT/CORRECTION/ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 540 PM MDT FRI MAY 10 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH TIL 10 PM MDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO...INCLUDING COLORADO SPRINGS...TIL 10PM MDT TONIGHT. AT 535PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED SHOWERS OVER THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPHg. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN AREA COVERAGE INTO THIS EVENING...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. FURTHER UPDATES WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. JKH ...CORRECTION OF REDUNDANT WORDING...
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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.