Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1992, 5:44 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1992, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1992, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 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, 11.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 042344
SVRPUB
COC071-050015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
544 PM MDT THU JUN 4 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTHERN AND NORTHWEST LAS-ANIMAS
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...THATCHER...
SIMPSON...TYRONE...HOUGHTON AND DELHI
AT 540 PM MDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTH OF
THATCHER IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS
SOUTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL, STRONG WINDS, ETC.
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.
GRAYWhat 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 4, 4:46 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
COZ015-016-050015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 445 PM MDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 440 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN HUERFANO COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ALONG THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALSENBURG...WITH ANOTHER STORM 5 MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG. BOTH THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE FOOTHILLS AROUND WALSENBURG SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE STORM IN THEIR AREA. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IN STEEP TERRAIN THE HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE CASES FLA]SH FLOODING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:05 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
COZ015-016-050015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 445 PM MDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 440 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN HUERFANO COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ALONG THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALSENBURG...WITH ANOTHER STORM 5 MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG. BOTH THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE FOOTHILLS AROUND WALSENBURG SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE STORM IN THEIR AREA. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IN STEEP TERRAIN THE HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:25 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
COZ010-015-016-050030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 525 PM MDT WED JUN 3 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 520 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE IN WESTERN THROUGH NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR THATCHER IN THE NORTHWEST TO AROUND SEGUNDO IN THE WEST. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE WESTERN AND NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE STORMS IN THEIR AREA. HEAVY RAIN... STRONG WINDS AND HAIL COULD ALL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...HEAD TO SAFE SHELTER WITHOUT DELAY. GRAY
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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.