Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1993, 8:54 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1993, 8:54 PM MDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1993, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 2984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 260255 RRA SVRPUB COC071-260400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 854 PM MDT FRI JUN 25 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY AT 850 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SEGUNDO COLORADO 22 MILES WEST SOUTH WEST OF TRINIDAD. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL FELL ON MONUMENT LAKE ABOUT 35 MILES WES OF TRINIDAD AT 850 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVTE 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 25, 8:25 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
COZ016-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 825 PM MDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL... AT 820 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD COLORADO IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO TO 35 MILES WEST. THIS STORM WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MOMUMENT LAKE 36 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD. IN THE CITY OF TRINIDAD VERY SMALL HAIL FELL FOR A VERY SHORT TIME. THE STORM WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER. CASEY
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:27 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
COZ016-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 825 PM MDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL... AT 820 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD COLORADO IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO TO 35 MILES WEST. THIS STORM WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT MOMUMENT LAKE 36 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD. IN THE CITY OF TRINIDAD VERY SMALL HAIL FELL FOR A VERY SHORT TIME. THE STORM WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER. CASEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 12:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 1:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 2:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm 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.