Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1994, 3:28 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1994, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1994, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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 312130 RRA SVRPUB COC009-071-312230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 328 PM MDT TUE MAY 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN BACA COUNTY...EASTERN LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY AT 325 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS OVER UTLEYVILLE BEFORE 400 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. LARSON
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 31, 3:13 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
COZ068>70-73>81-312215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT TUE MAY 31 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 310 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PASS OVER PRITCHETT IN BACA COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LARSON
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:15 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
COZ068>70-73>81-312215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT TUE MAY 31 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 310 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PASS OVER PRITCHETT IN BACA COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LARSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 25 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.