Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1992, 10:02 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1992, 10:02 PM MDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1992, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 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 170402
SVRPUB
COC009-170430-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1002 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
WEST CENTRAL BACA
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...
PRITCHETT
AT 955 PM MDT THE BACA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED HAIL FROM
3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER TO GOLF BALL SIZE IN THE TOWN OF
PRITCHETT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS OVER PRITCHETT MOVING
SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
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.
TESARWhat 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, Aug 16, 5:36 PM MDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-170015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 535 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 530 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ALONG THE KIOWA/CHEYENNE COUNTY LINE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS. OTHER STRONG STORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. LISTEN TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 610 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 1992 ...SMALL HAIL IN PROWERS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 600 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHCENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF GRANADA OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR. SPOTTER REPORTS INCLUDE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN THE GRANADA VICINITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERTORMS WERE IN NORTHWEST KIOWA COUNTY ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER LAPPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. LISTEN TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 645 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 635 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN KIOWA COUNTY NEAR EADS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF PUEBLO COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING INTO THE FOOTHILLS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO CAN EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE FOUND NEAR STORMS ALONG WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE 60S. OTHER AREAS WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH READINGS IN THE 70S.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 7:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-170215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 725 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 720 PM MDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST BENT COUNTY ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS NORTHEAST BENT AND WESTERN PROWERS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF LAMAR... SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER CENTRAL KIOWA AND SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTIES MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BT
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 9:34 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-170430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 934 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BACA COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 930 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN BACA COUNTY JUST EAST OF SPRINGFIELD AND ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. BT
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 9:44 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
COZ012>014-016-017-170430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 930 PM MDT SAT AUG 15 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EL PASO...ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTIES... AT 930 PM MDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THE LINE IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND AND PERSONS IN EASTERN EL PASO...SOUTHERN ELBERT AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION AS WATER MAY COVER ROADWAYS IN LOW LYING AREAS. GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 50 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.