Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1993, 6:17 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 13 min.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1993, 6:17 AM MDT (12:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1993, 6:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 KDEN 061219
TORPUB
COC061-061230-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
617 AM MDT THU MAY 06 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
EASTERN KIOWA
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
SHERIDAN LAKE
AT 617 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR ABOUT 33
MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
FOR THIS STORM.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET
UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
HEITKAMP
LAT...LON 3829 10209 3830 10230 3854 10230 3854 10210What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 6, 5:20 AM MDT, 57 minutes before
COZ017-061300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 520 AM MDT THU MAY 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO... AT 520 AM MDT THIS THURSDAY MORNING RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS MORNING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HUBER
Special weather statement, May 6, 5:23 AM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ017-061300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 520 AM MDT THU MAY 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO... AT 520 AM MDT THIS THURSDAY MORNING RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS MORNING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:56 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 34 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.