Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1994, 4:25 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1994, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1994, 4:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 312228 RRA SVRPUB COC009-312315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 425 PM MDT TUE MAY 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...CENTRAL BACA COUNTY...INCLUDING SPRINGFIELD AT 425 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 1 hour 12 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, 1 hour 10 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, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 62 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.