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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 22, 1991Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1991, 7:30 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1991, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1991, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1991-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 467 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1991-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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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 22, 2:00 PM MDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO
1255 PM MDT SAT JUN 22 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN AROUND THE SAN
LUIS VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON...

AT 1230 LIMON RADAR REPORTED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... WERE IN AN AREA 70 MILES
WIDE...FROM SOUTHEAST OF ALAMOSA...TO NORTHWEST OF FORT COLLINS.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.

RESIDENTS OF THE VALLEY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS_ SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHER
APPROACH.

REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL OR STATE POLICE FOR RELAY TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

CALLAHAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers28 min
Jun 22, 7:01 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers29 min
Jun 22, 8:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers31 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.