Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1994, 2:01 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1994, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1994, 2:37 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 032003 RRA SVRPUB COC101-032100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 201 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY INCLUDING RYE AND COLORADO CITY... AT 154 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF RYE AND SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. 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, Jun 3, 1:06 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ074-075-032005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 106 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1255 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE TRINIDAD AREA SHORTLY AFTER 1 PM MDT. PEOPLE NEAR THIS STORM IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND THE TRINIDAD AREA CAN EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG WIND BETWEEN 1 PM AND 130 PM MDT. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERSTORM CLOUDS ...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...GO INDOORS TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:06 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ074-075-032005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 106 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1255 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE TRINIDAD AREA SHORTLY AFTER 1 PM MDT. PEOPLE NEAR THIS STORM IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND THE TRINIDAD AREA CAN EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG WIND BETWEEN 1 PM AND 130 PM MDT. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERSTORM CLOUDS ...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...GO INDOORS TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:14 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
COZ041-046-047-067-071-072-032020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 115 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 8PM MDT... ...THE COUNTIES INCLUDE TELLER..ELBERT..EL PASO AND LINCOLN... THIS INCLUDES BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF COLORADO SPRINGS..WOODLAND PARK..LIMON AND KIOWA... AT 110PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS 10 TO 30 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN TELLER COUNTY COLORADO. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN LIMON AND COLORADO SPRINGS OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN AREA COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND SOME MAY BECOME SEVERE. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:15 PM MDT, 46 minutes before
COZ041-046-047-067-071-072-032020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 115 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 8PM MDT... ...THE COUNTIES INCLUDE TELLER..ELBERT..EL PASO AND LINCOLN... THIS INCLUDES BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF COLORADO SPRINGS..WOODLAND PARK..LIMON AND KIOWA... AT 110PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS 10 TO 30 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN TELLER COUNTY COLORADO. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN LIMON AND COLORADO SPRINGS OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN AREA COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND SOME MAY BECOME SEVERE. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:49 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ070-073>075-032050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 149 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FROM SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY NEAR RYE...TO NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD... AT 140 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. STORMS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED NEAR WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY AND NEAR RYE IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS SINCE SHORTLY BEFORE 1 PM MDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GRAY
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:49 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ070-073>075-032050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 149 PM MDT FRI JUN 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FROM SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY NEAR RYE...TO NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD... AT 140 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. STORMS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED NEAR WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY AND NEAR RYE IN SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS SINCE SHORTLY BEFORE 1 PM MDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GRAY
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.