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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 29, 1992Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1992, 3:48 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 1992, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1992, 4:17 PM MDT
In force: 29 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, 9.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 292148
SVRPUB
COC071-292245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
348 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
      WESTERN LAS-ANIMAS

 THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...AGUILAR AND
 MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF AGUILAR
 AND TRINIDAD.

AT 340 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL OVER
THE TOWN OF AGUILAR 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.

EVENSON
S

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 29, 3:24 PM MDT, 24 minutes before

COZ015-016-017-292215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
325 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...

AT 315 PM MDT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN
HUERFANO COUNTY AND NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10
MILES AN HOUR.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN
AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR
WALSENBURG AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD.

IF YOU ARE NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS FIND SHELTER INDOORS.
MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN WALSENBURG AND TRINIDAD SHOULD
USE CAUTION.

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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.