Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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 10209What 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:17 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 13 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.