Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1993, 9:55 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1993, 9:55 PM MDT (03:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1993, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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 010356 RRA SVRPUB COC061-010445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 955 PM MDT WED JUN 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY AT 953 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF GALATEA. THESE STORMS HAD PRODUCED HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AT HASWELL BETWEEN 915 PM AND 930 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF GALATEA AND EADS. MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN GALATEA AND EADS....AND HIGHWAY 287 NORTH OF EADS SHOULD ALSO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. 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. GRAY &
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 54 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, 2 hours 28 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, 2 hours 24 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, 2 hours 23 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, 1 hour 40 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, 1 hour 37 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, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 52 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.