Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1991, 7:48 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1991, 7:48 PM MDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1991, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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
- 2142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 11, 4:06 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 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, 2 hours 23 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 20 min |
| May 11, 6:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 58 min |
| May 11, 8:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 29 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.