Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1992, 5:59 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1992, 5:59 PM MDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1992, 6:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPUB 162359
SVRPUB
COC043-101-170045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
559 PM MDT THU JUL 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF COLORADO
EXTREME EASTERN FREMONT...
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL PUEBLO...
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
PENROSE...FLORENCE IN FREMONT COUNTY AND PUEBLO WEST AND
PUEBLO IN PUEBLO COUNTY.
AT 555 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE PUEBLO/FREMONT
COUNTY LINE ABOUT 22 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS DROPPED AT LEAST 3/4
INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN THE TOWN OF PENROSE IN FREMONT COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
TESARNAMEWhat 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 16, 4:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-162345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 450 PM MDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO FREMONT COUNTY... AT 440 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO FREMONT COUNTY ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF PARKDALE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN FREMONT COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RISING WATER IN NEARBY STREAMS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF NECESSARY. fBT
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:34 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
COZ014-170030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 530 PM MDT THU JUL 16 1992 AT 530 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE PIKES PEAK REGION OF COLORADO. AT 5 PM LIMON REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE STATION WHICH PRODUCED SOME SMALL HAIL AND MODERATE RAIN. OTHER STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED NEAR THE TOWN OF PEYTON IN NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:44 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-170030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 540 PM MDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN FREMONT COUNTY... AT 535 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN FREMONT COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN FREMONT COUNTY AND CUSTER COUNTY. ALL THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY BY 600 PM. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND STREETS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN PENROSE AND PUEBLO WEST SHOULD ESPECIALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER IN THEIR AREA UNTIL 630 PM. BT
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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.