Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1991, 5:40 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1991, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1991, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 2256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 112345 COR
SVRPUB
COC011-099-120045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
540 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTHEAST BENT...NORTHWEST PROWERS
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...IN BENT
COUNTY...MCCLAVE...HASTY...CADDOA AND BIG BEND. IN PROWERS COUNTY
...LAMAR...WILEY AND KORNMAN.
AT 535 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 12 MILES WEST OF LAMAR.
HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THE STORM. HAIL OF UNSPECIFIED SIZE WAS
REPORTED AT HASTY AND MCCLAVE IN BENT COUNTY.
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.
GRAYWhat 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 11, 4:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
COZ016-017-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 405 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PART OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT... AT 4 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WERE 5 MILES WEST AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF EADS IN KIOWA COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THEIR AREA. IF THE WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING... HEAD INDOORS TO STURDY SHELTER...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. OTHER THUNDERTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE EASTERN BORDER COUNTIES OF COLORADO...SO STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGPS. TESAR
Special weather statement, May 11, 5:25 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
COZ016-017-120130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 515 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PART OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT... AT 515 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL HAD DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEAST BENT AND SOUTHWEST PROWERS COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING NORTH 35 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD STRIKE A PATH BETWEEN TOWNS IN EASTERN BENT COUNTY ...SUCH AS CADDOA...HASTY AND MCCLAVE AND WESTERN PROWERS COUNTY SUCH AS LAMAR AND WILEY BEFORE 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING. PEOPLE NEAR THE STORM...AS WELL AS PEOPLE IN EASTERN BENT AND WESTERN PROWERS COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER...INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS IF THE WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL WATCH THIS STORM CLOSELY AS IT DEVELOPS AND MOVES NORTH THROUGH BENT AND PROWERS COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GRAY
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.