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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 2, 1993Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1993, 7:24 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1993, 7:24 PM MDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1993, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Jun 2, 1:55 PM MDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-022045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
155 PM MDT WED JUN 2 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS IN PUEBLO COUNTY...

AT 150 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY
ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS.
ALSO...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THAT INCLUDES MUCH
OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.

BT
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:57 PM MDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-022045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
155 PM MDT WED JUN 2 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS IN PUEBLO COUNTY...

AT 150 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY
ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS.
ALSO...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THAT INCLUDES MUCH
OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. IF fTHREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.

BT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers46 min
Jun 2, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers33 min
Jun 3, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa33 min
Jun 3, 4:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers27 min
Jun 3, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers26 min
Jun 3, 4:53 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers22 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.