Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1991, 4:47 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1991, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1991, 5:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPUB 232247
SVRPUB
COC061-232345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
447 PM MDT THU MAY 23 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...HASWELL...
GALATEA AND EADS.
AT 440 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF EADS IN
KIOWA COUNTY AND ANOTHER POSSIBLY SEVERE STORM WAS 5 MILES
WEST OF ARLINGTON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL BROKE WINDOWS IN EADS AT 435 PM.
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.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 23, 11:51 AM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
CO0009-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 1150 PM MDT THU MAY 23 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS AVAILABLE FROM THE APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL LOW THEREFORE CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. STRONG STORMS WITH A CHANCE OF HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. DUE TO THE PRECIPITATION SMALL CREEK AND STREAM LEVELS MAY RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING. NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS EXPECTED AND LARGER RIVERS SHOULD REMAIN WELL WITHIN BANKS. CAMPERS...RAFTERS...FISHERMAN AND OTHER PERSONS NEAR SMALLER RIVERS AND STREAMS THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SHOULD BE ALERT OF THESE CONDITIONS AND EXCERCISE CAUTION. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEW MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SBARNETT/BUTLER
Special weather statement, May 23, 11:52 AM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
CO0009-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 1150 AM MDT THU MAY 23 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS AVAILABLE FROM THE APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL LOW THEREFORE CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. STRONG STORMS WITH A CHANCE OF HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. DUE TO THE PRECIPITATION SMALL CREEK AND STREAM LEVELS MAY RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING. NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS EXPECTED AND LARGER RIVERS SHOULD REMAIN WELL WITHIN BANKS. CAMPERS...RAFTERS...FISHERMAN AND OTHER PERSONS NEAR SMALLER RIVERS AND STREAMS THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SHOULD BE ALERT OF THESE CONDITIONS AND EXCERCISE CAUTION. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEW MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SBARNETT/BUTLER
Special weather statement, May 23, 1:33 PM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
COZ004-011>-014-016-017-232130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 130 PM MDT THU MAY 23 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM MDT... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TO THE WEST OF COLORADO COMBINED WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER EASTERN COLORADO WILL CAUSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EASTERN HALF OF COLORADO MAY BECOME SEVERE... WITH HAIL...STRONG WINDS...LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF COLORADO SPRINGS...LIMON...WOODLAND PARK...KIOWA ...BURLINGTON...AND CHEYENNE WELLS. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THREAT- ENING WEATHER APPROACH. GURNEY
Special weather statement, May 23, 1:35 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 130 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 1991 ...TORNDADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AT 125 PM MDT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN PUEBLO AND EASTERN FREMONT COUNTIES... ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF WETMORE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE THROUGH WESTERN AND NORTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY UNTIL ABOUT 230 PM MDT TODAY. REMEMBER THAT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN COLORADO...INCLUDING THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. REMAIN ALERT TO THUNDERSTORMS IN YOUR AREA AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER...AWAY FROM WINDOWS IF WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GRAY
Special weather statement, May 23, 2:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 220 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AT 215 PM MDT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN WAS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTLAND ALONG THE FREMONT/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD FIND SAFE SHELTER AS IT MOVES THROUGH THEIR AREA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. AT 215 PM MDT THE STRONGEST STORM IN THIS AREA WAS SOUTH OF TRINIDAD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND RESIDENTS OF TRINIDAD AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY RsAIN ...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
Special weather statement, May 23, 2:47 PM MDT, 2 hours before
COZ015-016-017-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 240 PM MDT FRI MAY 23 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AT 240 PM MDT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL 2 INCHES DEEP JUST TO THE WEST OF THE PUEBLO WEST COMMUNITY AT 230 PM. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS OVER I-25 NEAR THE PUEBLO/EL PASO COUNTY LINE AND MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA UNTIL ABOUT 345 PM MDT. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 27 min |
| May 23, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 60 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.