Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1993, 5:05 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1993, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1993, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 242306 SVRPUB COC055-071-242330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 505 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY...WESTERN LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY THIS WARNING IS FOR THE TOWN OF AGUILAR...AND FOR PORTIONS OF INTERSTATE 25 FROM WALSENBURG TO TRINIDAD. AT 505 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST HUERFANO COUNTY... SOUTHEAST OF WALSENBURG...MOVING TOWARD THE TOWN OF AGUILAR...TO THE EAST 20 MPH. 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.
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, May 24, 3:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
COZ016-017-242215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 339 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 335 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF BEULAH IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE BEULAH AREA BY 400 PM AS STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD OVER THE AREA AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. BT
Special weather statement, May 24, 3:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
COZ016-017-242215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 339 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 335 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF BEULAH IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE BEULAH AREA BY 400 PM AS STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST fCOLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD OVER THE AREA AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. BT
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
COZ016-017-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 400 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 ...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT BEULAH... AT 355 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER AND NEAR THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST EAST OF GARDNER IN HUERFANO COUNTY. STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN IN BEULAH ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO AT 345 PM. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD OVER THE AREA AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. BT
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
COZ016-017-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 400 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 ...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT BEULAH... AT 355 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER AND NEAR THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST EAST OF GARDNER IN HUERFANO COUNTY. STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN IN BEULAH ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO AT 345 PM. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD OVER THE AREA AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. BT
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:15 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
COZ004>010-250000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 415 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED DURING THE DAY AND REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION MOSTLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS THE AREAS THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE AS WELL AS THE CLOUDS BY 900 PM TONIGHT WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES FOLLOWING. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS LIVING OR TRAVELING ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS ...SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DUE TO THE ALREADY HIGH LEVELS OF MANY STREAMS AND RIVERS IN SOUTHWEST AND SOUNTH CENTRAL COLORADO...PERSON LIVING ALONG ANY WATERCOURSE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WATER LEVELS. ALSO STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND INFORMATION. BARNETT
Special weather statement, May 24, 4:44 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COZ016-017-242315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 444 PM MDT MON MAY 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 440 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY...AND 5 MILES NORTH OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN WALSENBURG AND TRINIDAD UNTIL AT LEAST 530 PM. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. BT
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.