Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1992, 3:48 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1992, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1992, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 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 122148
SVRPUB
COC009-122245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
348 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 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
EASTERN BACA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...WALSH...
BARTLETT AND STONINGTON.
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BACA COUNTY FIVE MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WALSH COLORADO...WHICH IS 71 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA
JUNTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR
INDICATED HAIL 3/4 TO ONE INCH IN THE STORM.
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 DRIVINTG INTO 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, Jul 12, 2:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
COZ009-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 230 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE SOUTHWEST OF THE SAN JUANS MOUNTAINS AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY BY 500 PM THIS EVENING AND MAY CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AREAS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS...SMALL STEAMS OR LOW LYING AREAS. 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 THUNDERSTORM IS IN A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM FLOOD PRONE AREAS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THESE DEVELOPING STORMS. BARNETT
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 2:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 238 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAINS IN BACA COUNTY... AT 235 A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS IN BACA COUNTY FIVE MILES NORTH OF CAMPO...WHICH IS 70 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA JUNTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MOSTLY SHOWERS...WERE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO IN PUEBLO...HUERFANO...LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES. BESIDES HEAVY RAINS...THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. 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.