Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 6, 1993Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1993, 5:56 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1993, 5:56 AM MDT (11:56 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1993, 6:30 AM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1993-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 061158
SVRPUB
COC061-099-061200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
556 AM MDT THU MAY 06 1993

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
     SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     HARTMAN

AT 556 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTMAN...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST
OF LAMAR.

THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY
SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEAT\HER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.

HEITKAMP
LAT...LON 3812 10211 3811 10235 3840 10245 3842 10209

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 6, 5:20 AM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ017-061300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
520 AM MDT THU MAY 6 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO...

AT 520 AM MDT THIS THURSDAY MORNING RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN
SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS.
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT THIS MORNING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

HUBER
Special weather statement, May 6, 5:23 AM MDT, 33 minutes before
COZ017-061300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
520 AM MDT THU MAY 6 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO...

AT 520 AM MDT THIS THURSDAY MORNING RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN
SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS.
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT THIS MORNING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

HUBER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 6:17 AM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa13 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.