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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 17, 1992Pueblo County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1992-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1992-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
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.

CASEY

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 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.