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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 1992Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1992, 1:28 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1992, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1992, 1:45 PM MDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 151928
SVRPUB
COC071-152000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
128 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
      WEST CENTRAL LAS-ANIMAS

 THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...MODEL

AT 120 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 14 MILES NORTHEAST
OF THE CITY OF TRINIDAD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A TORNADO
WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM FROM 103 PM TO 114 PM 2 MILES
NORTHEAST OF THE TRINIDAD AIRPORT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  ONCE
INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 15, 1:06 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

COZ015-016-17-152015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
105 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 100 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STORM WAS ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
THE CITY OF TRINIDAD MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE
STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. PEOPLE NEAR THIS
STORM SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

TESAR

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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.