Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1992, 5:17 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1992, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1992, 6:02 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 252317
SVRPUB
COC061-260015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
517 PM MDT SAT JUL 25 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
EASTERN KIOWA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...CHIVINGTON.
..BRANDON...AND SHERIDAN LAKE.
AT 510 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL...7
MILES SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF CHIVINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES
AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.
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.
EVENSONWhat 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 25, 2:59 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
COZ014-011-004-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 301 PM MDT SAT JUL 25 1992 AT 300 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS...SOME MODERATE EXTENDED OVER MOST OF EL PASO COUNTY. A FEW POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN- DICATED AROUND THE FOOTHILLS WEST AND NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS... WITHIN ABOUT 10 MILES OF THE CITY. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 TO 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING WITH SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:24 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-252345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 425 PM MDT SAT JUL 25 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED AROUND SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 415 PM MDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED AROUND SOUTHEAST COLORADO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN WESTERN BENT COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF LAS ANIMAS ...IN NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...AND IN EASTERN OTERO COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF LA JUNTA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSING FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
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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.