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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 1993Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1993, 7:43 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1993, 7:43 PM MDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1993, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

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, 3 hours 56 minutes before
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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.

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Special weather statement, May 31, 3:48 PM MDT, 3 hours 55 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, 1 hour 23 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Bent59 min
May 31, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo46 min
May 31, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers38 min
May 31, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca34 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.