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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 26, 1992Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 1:34 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1992, 1:34 PM MDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1992, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 1992-06-26Temperature 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 1992-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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 261934
SVRPUB
COC071-262015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
134 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
      SOUTHWEST LAS-ANIMAS

 THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...WESTON...
 SEGUNDO...VALDEZ. ALSO TRINIDAD AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

AT 130 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHWEST LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF TRINIDAD. THE STORM
IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

BT

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, Jun 26, 1:11 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-262015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
110 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WEST OF TRINIDAD...

AT 105 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST
SOUTHEAST. PERSONS NEAR THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN SEGUNDO...
VALDEZ AND ALSO TRINIDAD...SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER AS THIS STORM MOVES
THROUGH THEIR AREA. HAiIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES.

BT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley56 min
Jun 26, 4:45 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBPueblo30 min
Jun 26, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo59 min

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.