Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1993, 4:39 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1993, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1993, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 31, 3:47 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
COZ016>017-312245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 340 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF AGUILAR. THE AGUILAR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...NEAR THE HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTY LINE. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS SO USE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE ON ROADS COVERED WITH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. VNOW AFT $$q`WWUSD A GOt6WWUSf Te6WWUS( $C WWUS4 $I6WWUSj AND FTIY* FPUS XWOUSz" uMn6WWUS LFPCN FTZW YN6WWUS @FPCN FPCN4 HFABA2b \Aw` WUUS FPHW FZHWNWWUS35KHAR ,
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:48 PM MDT, 51 minutes before
COZ016>017-312245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 340 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF AGUILAR. THE AGUILAR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...NEAR THE HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTY LINE. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY LOCALIZED FLOO&DING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS SO USE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE ON ROADS COVERED WITH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
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, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 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, 4:50 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.