Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1993, 6:35 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1993, 6:35 PM MDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1993, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 30, 6:15 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ016-017-310130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 615 PM MDT SUN MAY 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 605 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL BORDER OF CROWLEY AND LINCOLN COUNTIES...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF ORDWAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...INCLUDING MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 71 IN NORTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY...SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:15 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ016-017-310130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 615 PM MDT SUN MAY 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 605 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL BORDER OF CROWLEY AND LINCOLN COUNTIES...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF ORDWAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...INCLUDING MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 71 IN NORTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY...SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa | 40 min |
| May 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 48 min |
| May 30, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 40 min |
| May 31, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 51 min |
| May 31, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 38 min |
| May 31, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 66 min |
| May 31, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 65 min |
| May 31, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 40 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.