Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1993, 7:14 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1993, 7:14 PM MDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1993, 7:52 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 010115 RRA SVRPUB COC011-099-010200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 714 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN BENT COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY THIS WARNING INCLUDES PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF WILEY...LAMAR...KORNMAN AND MAY VALLEY. AT 710 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1O MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK 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. WUUS01KPUB ,
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, 3 hours 27 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, 3 hours 26 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.
Special weather statement, May 31, 6:20 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ014-014-011-013-311500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 620 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 DENSE FOG..AND AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS..HAVE INVADED THE PIKES PEAK REGION AND EASTERN COLORADO THIS MORNING. IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA..DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITY TO 3 TO 5 MILES AT TIMES..MAINLY IN THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF THH CITY. FOG AND LOW CLOUDS WILL START TO DISIPATE LATER THIS MORNING BUT SKIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE MOSTLY CLOUDY TODAY. OUT ON THE EASTERN PLAINS FROM LIMON TO WESTERN KANSAS..LOW CLOUDS AND AREAS OF PATCHY FOG WILL CONTINUE UNTIL ABOUT MID MORNING BEFORE STARTING TO DISIPATE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON WITH A FEW STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL..STRONG WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. HAVILL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent | 59 min |
| May 31, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 46 min |
| May 31, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 47 min |
| May 31, 8:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 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.