Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1993, 9:08 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1993, 9:08 PM MDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1993, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 010312 RRA SVRPUB COC061-010400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 908 PM MDT WED JUN 30 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 KIOWA COUNTY THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF HASWELL AND ARLINGTON. AT 900 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY JUST WEST OF HASWELL. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AS IT MOVED THROUGH LINCOLN COUNTY EARLIER THIS EVENING. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 30, 7:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
COZ013-010200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 700 PM MDT WED JUN 30 1993 AT 655 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY INTO CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY OF COLORADO. THESE STORMS REACHED FROM ELLICOTT..EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS..EAST WARD OVER THE COMMUNITIES OF PEYTON AND SIMLA COLORADO. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED MODERATE RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THE MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAVILL
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
COZ013-010200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 727 PM MDT WED JUN 30 1993 AT 725 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO AND INTO LINCOLN COUNTY. THESE STORMS REACHED FROM ELLICOTT ..EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS..EAST WARD OVER YODER AND RUSH TO THE LIMON AREA AND SOUTH OF LIMON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED MODERATE RAIN..1 INCH HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THE MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAVILL
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
COZ013-010200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 727 PM MDT WED JUN 30 1993 AT 725 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO AND INTO LINCOLN COUNTY. THESE STORMS REACHED FROM ELLICOTT ..EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS..EAST WARD OVER YODER AND RUSH TO THE LIMON AREA AND SOUTH OF LIMON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED MODERATE RAIN..1 INCH HAIL pAND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THE MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAVILL
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
COZ016-010230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 730 PM MDT TUE JUN 29 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 730 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AROUND THE TOWNS OF AVONDALE AND BOONE. PEASIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT FORT REYNOLDS JUST EAST OF BOONE AROUND 720 PM MDT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 10 TO 15 MPH...AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN CROWLEY AND OTERO COUNTIES BEFORE 8 PM MDT. PEOPLE NEAR THESE STORMS IN EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY...AS WELL AS WESTERN CROWLEY AND OTERO COUNTIES WHERE THE STORMS WILL MOVE... SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATING WEATHER APPROACHES. T|HESE STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND GUSTS AND POSSIBLE HAIL THIS EVENING. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:15 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
COZ013-010300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 815 PM MDT WED JUN 30 1993 AT 812 PM MDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY FROM RUSH EASTWARD INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY SOUTH OF LIMON AND INTO EXTREME WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HAIL AND RAINFALL..HEAVY AT TIMES. PERSONS IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAVILL
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:18 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
COZ013-010300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 815 PM MDT WED JUN 30 1993 AT 812 PM MDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY FROM RUSH EASTWARD INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY SOUTH OF LIMON AND INTO EXTREME WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HAIL AND RAINFALL..HEAVY AT TIMES. PERSONS IN EASVTERN COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAVILL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 50 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.