Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1993, 4:18 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1993, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1993, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 3, 1:02 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
COC017-041-039-063-073-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 102 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993 ... A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1255 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...FROM THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF KIT CARSON COUNTY...OR 20 MILES NORTH OF VONA...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR GENOA...PUNKIN CENTER...TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF RUSH. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES...WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS ALREADY PRODUCED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS IN ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTY SO PERSONS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN INFORMATION F2ROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:02 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
COC017-041-039-063-073-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 102 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993 ... A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1255 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...FROM THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF KIT CARSON COUNTY...OR 20 MILES NORTH OF VONA...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR GENOA...PUNKIN CENTER...TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF RUSH. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES...WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS ALREADY PRODUCED SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS IN ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTY SO PERSONS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
COC017-041-039-063-073-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 157 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993 ... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 4PM... AT 145 PM MDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTHEAST-SOUTHWEST FROM NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY ACROSS STRATTON TO NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ARROYA...AT THE INTERSECTION OF COLORADO HIGHWAY 94 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287...TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR STRATTON... AND 10 MILES NORTH OF WILDHORSE IN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHERIFF`S OFFICE IN CHEYENNE COUNTY REPORTED LARGE MARBLE SIZE HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF WILDHORSE. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PERSONS TRAVELLING THROUGH NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME BRIEF FLASH FLOODING IN LOW SPOTS ON THE ROADWAYS AND NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS. THIS AREA RECEIVED HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL YESTERDAY AND WILL LIKELY BE PRONE TO FLOODING AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THIS SLOW MOVIBNG STORM. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL &
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
COC017-041-039-063-073-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 157 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993 ... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 4PM... AT 145 PM MDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTHEAST-SOUTHWEST FROM NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY ACROSS STRATTON TO NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ARROYA...AT THE INTERSECTION OF COLORADO HIGHWAY 94 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287...TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR STRATTON... AND 10 MILES NORTH OF WILDHORSE IN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHERIFF`S OFFICE IN CHEYENNE COUNTY REPORTED LARGE MARBLE SIZE HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF WILDHORSE. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PERSONS TRAVELLING THROUGH NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME BRIEF FLASH FLOODING IN LOW SPOTS ON THE ROADWAYS AND NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS. THIS AREA RECEIVED HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL YESTERDAY AND WILL LIKELY BE PRONE TO FLOODING AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THIS SLOW MOVING STORM. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL &
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:58 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ-017-032240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 358 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 345 PM MDT THE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR INTO WESTERN KANSAS. THUNDESTORMS 5 MILES NORTH OF GRANADA...IN PROWERS COUNTY...WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD BRISTOL. PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED EAST OF LAMAR IN PROWERS COUNTY AT 355 PM. STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TONIGHT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO FROM LA JUNTA EAST TO THE KANSAS AND COLORADO STATE LINE. STAY TUNED TO RADIO TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GALLEGOS
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:59 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
COZ-017-032240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 358 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 345 PM MDT THE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR INTO WESTERN KANSAS. THUNDESTORMS 5 MILES NORTH OF GRANADA...IN PROWERS COUNTY...WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD BRISTOL. PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED EAST OF LAMAR IN PROWERS COUNTY AT 355 PM. STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TONIGHT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO FROM LA JUNTA EAST TO THE KANSAS AND COLORADO STATE LINE. STAY TUNED TO RADIO TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GALLEGOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 4:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 22 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.