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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 1993Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1993, 6:48 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 1993, 6:48 PM MDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1993, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 412 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 4, 4:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:56 PM MDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:00 PM MDT, 48 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
600 PM MDT WED AUG 4 1993

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 600 PM THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP ACROSS EAST CENTRAL COLORADO WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS AT THIS
TIME IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL LINCOLN AND IN SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTIES.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THIS
EVENING AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS.  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE TORNADOES.
MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.

PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THIS EVENING SHOULD BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
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HUBER

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:22 PM MDT, 26 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
622 PM MDT WED AUG 4 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN AREAS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

AT 615 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN AREAS OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ALONG THE PUEBLO AND
EL PASO COUNTY LINE...NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO.  ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS
IN EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF
PUEBLO.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST
COLORADO THIS EVENING...SOME WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL.  ALSO...
SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:23 PM MDT, 25 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
622 PM MDT WED AUG 4 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN AREAS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

AT 615 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN AREAS OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ALONG THE PUEBLO AND
EL PASO COUNTY LINE...NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO.  ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS
IN EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF
PUEBLO.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST
COLORADO THIS EVENING...SOME WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL.  ALSO...
SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRO`DUCING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:25 PM MDT, 23 minutes before

COZ015-016-017-050130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
622 PM MDT WED AUG 4 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN AREAS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

AT 615 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN AREAS OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ALONG THE PUEBLO AND
EL PASO COUNTY LINE...NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO.  ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS
IN EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF
PUEBLO.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST
COLORADO THIS EVENING...SOME WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL.  ALSO...
SOME STORMpS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	43 min
Aug 4, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	27 min
Aug 4, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	29 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.