Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1992, 3:03 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1992, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1992, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 252103
SVRPUB
COC055-101-252200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
303 PM MDT THU JUN 25 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
HUERFANO...SOUTHWEST PUEBLO
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...WALSENBURG
...RYE AND COLORADO CITY.
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER RYE AND WALSENBURG AND LARGE
HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WALSENBURG. THESE STORMS ARE STILL DEVELOPING.
HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS
MOVE SOUTHEAST.
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 IFNTO 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, Jun 25, 1:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
COZ009-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 145 PM MDT THU JUN 25 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... THUNDRSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SEVERAL OF THE MOUNTAIN AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND ARE MOVING ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...WITH THE SKY BECOMING MOSTLY CLEAR OVERNIGHT. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. THE SAFEST PLACE DURING A THUNDERSTORMS IS INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER BENEATH ISOLATED TREES OR NEAR TELEPHONE POLES. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL OR STATE POLICE FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BTK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:41 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 235 PM MDT THU JUN 25 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS IN EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY... AT 230 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE IN EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY....30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FOOTHILLS. BESIDES HEAVY RAINS THE THUNDERSTROMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK A SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. CASEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.