Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 5:57 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1994, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 070000 RRA SVRPUB COC061-070045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 557 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY AT 555 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN KIOWA COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TESAR
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 6, 3:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
COZ078-079-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 355 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS IN BENT AND KIOWA COUNTIES... AT 350 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE IN BENT AND WESTERN KIOWA COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINS. SO...IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES FIND A SAFE SHELTER. CASEY
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:57 PM MDT, 2 hours before
COZ047-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED END 2ND PARA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 357 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 355 PM MDT...LIMON RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...11 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF KARVAL...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY ALONG COLORADO 94 NEAR AROYA...IN THE NEXT HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
COZ047-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 357 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 355 PM MDT...LIMON RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...11 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF KARVAL...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY ALONG COLORADO 94 NEAR AROYA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
COZ047-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED END 2ND PARA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 357 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 355 PM MDT...LIMON RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...11 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF KARVAL...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY ALONG COLORADO 94 NEAR AROYA...IN THE NEXT HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
COZ078>081-062315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 428 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 425 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHEAST BORDER COUNTIES OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST EAST OF EADS IN KIOWA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE EADS AREA AROUND 415 PM. PERSONS IN THE COUNTIES OF KIOWA...PROWERS...BENT AND BACA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
COZ078>081-062315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 428 PM MDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 425 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHEAST BORDER COUNTIES OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST EAST OF EADS IN KIOWA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE EADS AREA AROUND 415 PM. PERSONS IN THE COUNTIES OF KIOWA...PROWERS...BENT AND BACA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 41 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.