Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 28 min |
| Jun 22, 7:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 31 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.