Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1993, 5:10 PM MDT for Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 1993, 5:10 PM MDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1993, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 012312 RRA SVRPUB COC043-101-020000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 510 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN CENTRAL COLORADO ...EASTERN AND EAST CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AT 512 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR THE FREMONT/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF CANON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 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, Aug 1, 2:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 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, 3 hours 7 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
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
COC014-119-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 300 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT INCLUDING COLORADO SPRINGS... AT 3 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY AND IN NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS 5 MILES AND 15 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 AND NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
COC014-119-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 300 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT INCLUDING COLORADO SPRINGS... AT 3 PM...LIMON RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY AND IN NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS 5 MILES AND 15 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 AND NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS ANDt BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 355 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO FREMONT COUNTY... AT 350 PM MDT...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE FREMONT COUNTY LINE ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS FREMONT COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA...THE WEATHER CHANNEL OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
COZ015-016-017-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 355 PM MDT SUN AUG 1 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO FREMONT COUNTY... AT 350 PM MDT...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE FREMONT COUNTY LINE ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS FREMONT COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA...THE WEjATHER CHANNEL OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 57 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.