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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 1994Baca County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1994-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 71 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1994-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.