Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1993, 6:43 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1993, 6:43 PM MDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1993, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 482 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 190044 RRA SVRPUB COC009-190130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 643 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY AT 640 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTH OF CAMPO. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING MARBLE SIZE HAIL...BUT MAY PRODUCE LARGER HAIL AS IT INTENSIFIES. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST 15 TO 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 18, 2:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 245 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 ...FLOOD WATCH FOR ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND AVONDALE UNTIL MIDNIGHT... A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND AVONDALE IN PUEBLO COUNTY. RIVER LEVELS ON THE ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR AVONDALE ARE RUNNING HIGH DUE TO HEAVY RAINS LAST NIGHT AND THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE AREA COULD CAUSE FLOODING ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR AVONDALE. REMEMBER...THIS IS A WATCH AND NOT A WARNING. A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER... ESPECIALLY THOSE NEAR AVONDALE...SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:47 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 245 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 ...FLOOD WATCH FOR ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND AVONDALE UNTIL MIDNIGHT... A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND AVONDALE IN PUEBLO COUNTY. RIVER LEVELS ON THE ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR AVONDALE ARE RUNNING HIGH DUE TO HEAVY RAINS LAST NIGHT AND THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE AREA COULD CAUSE FLOODING ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR AVONDALE. REMEMBER...THIS IS A WATCH AND NOT A WARNING. A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER... ESPECIALLY THOSE NEAR AVONDALE...SHOULD REMAIN6 ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 305 PM MDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY AND IN EXTREME NORTHWEST BENT COUNTY NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS...ESPECIALLY IN THE COUNTIES OF PUEBLO AND FREMONT. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND AVONDALE IN EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:18 PM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 305 PM MDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY AND IN EXTREME NORTHWEST BENT COUNTY NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS...ESPECIALLY IN THE COUNTIES OF PUEBLO AND FREMONT. A FLOOD WATCH ISz IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE ARKANSAS RIVER AROUND AVONDALE IN EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-182230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 355 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 350 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. ONE STORM WAS IN KIOWA COUNTY 10 MILES EAST OF ARLINGTON...ANOTHER WAS IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF THATCHER AND ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-182230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 355 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 350 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. ONE STORM WAS IN KIOWA COUNTY 10 MILES EAST OF ARLINGTON...ANOTHER WAS IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF THATCHER AND ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. BT
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.