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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 1, 1993Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1993, 2:36 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 1, 1993, 2:36 PM MDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 1993, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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.

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: 755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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, Aug 1, 1:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 1:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 2:00 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

COC119-012100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
200 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993

AT 2 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED
IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORM ABOUT
7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF
COLORADO SPRINGS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

HUBER

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 2:03 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

COC119-012100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
200 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993

AT 2 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED
IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORM ABOUT
7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND PARK OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF
COLORADO SPRINGS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUShTY WINDS.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

HUBER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	50 min
Aug 1, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	57 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.