Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1993, 5:50 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1993, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1993, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 312351 TORPUB COC101-010030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 550 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AT 548 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
What 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 31, 3:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
COZ016>017-312245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 340 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF AGUILAR. THE AGUILAR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...NEAR THE HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTY LINE. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS SO USE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE ON ROADS COVERED WITH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. VNOW AFT $$q`WWUSD A GOt6WWUSf Te6WWUS( $C WWUS4 $I6WWUSj AND FTIY* FPUS XWOUSz" uMn6WWUS LFPCN FTZW YN6WWUS @FPCN FPCN4 HFABA2b \Aw` WUUS FPHW FZHWNWWUS35KHAR ,
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
COZ016>017-312245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 340 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF AGUILAR. THE AGUILAR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...NEAR THE HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTY LINE. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY LOCALIZED FLOO&DING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS SO USE CAUTION AND NEVER DRIVE ON ROADS COVERED WITH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa | 40 min |
| May 30, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 40 min |
| May 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 48 min |
| May 30, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 40 min |
| May 31, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 51 min |
| May 31, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 38 min |
| May 31, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 66 min |
| May 31, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 65 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.