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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 3, 1993Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1993, 6:46 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1993, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1993, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 1:57 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 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

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 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, 2 hours 47 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, 4:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

COZ016-017-040045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
445 PM MDT THU JUN 3 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST BACA...AND SOUTHERN
PROWERS COUNTIES...

AT 440 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SPRINGFIELD IN NORTHWEST BACA COUNTY AND 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LAMAR IN EAST CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY. HAIL WAS POSSIBLE WITH THE
STORM IN PROWERS COUNTY WHICH WAS MOVING TOWARD CHENEY CENTER.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 15 TO 20 MPH.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING. PEOPLE NEAR THE
STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT TONIGHT AND
INCLUDES BACA AND PROWERS COUNTIES.

GRAY

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:49 PM MDT, 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	45 min
Jun 3, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	31 min

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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.