Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1992, 4:25 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 5 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1992, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1992, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 172225
SVRPUB
COC101-172330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
425 PM MDT SUN MAY 17 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
SOUTHWEST PUEBLO
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...RYE AND
COLORADO CITY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS MOVING
OVER RYE COLORADO AT 405 PM MDT. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT RYE
AT 405 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
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.
CASEYWhat 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 17, 2:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
COZ015-016-172200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 225 PM MDT SUN MAY 17 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FOOTHILLS... AT 220 PM MDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FOOTHILLS IN FREMONT...CUSTER...EXTREME WESTERN PUEBLO...HUERFANO AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTRIES OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS COULD ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AS THEY MOVE EAST OFF THE FOOTHILLS. SO IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER. CASEY
Special weather statement, May 17, 3:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
COZ015-016-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT SUN MAY 17 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY HAIL IN EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY... AT 310 PM MDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS IN EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES WEST OF BEULAH COLORADO WHICH IS IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY 24 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING ALONG THE EASTERN FOOTHILLS AND MOVING ONTO THE NEARBY PLAINS. SOME STORMS WILL HAVE HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SO IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER. CASEY
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.