Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 7:31 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1994, 7:31 PM MDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1994, 8:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 040132 RRA SVRPUB COC099-040215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 731 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY AT 725 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY. THE FIRST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 8 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF GRANADA AND THE SECOND WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRANADA. THESE STORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT AND HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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.
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 3, 5:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 521 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN PROWERS COUNTY... AT 515 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY NEAR BRISTOL AND HARTMAN...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD FIND SHELTER INDOORS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND MORE ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 521 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN PROWERS COUNTY... AT 515 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY NEAR BRISTOL AND HARTMAN...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD FIND SHELTER INDOORS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND MORE ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
COZ046-047-072-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 528 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE...AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY...AND EASTERN ELBERT COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM AT 5 15 PM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON... OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF RAMAH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN ELBERT COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS TRAVELING IN EASTERN ELBERT...EASTERN EL PASO..AND LINCOLN COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THROUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...AS THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. ...END...
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
COZ046-047-072-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 528 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE...AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY...AND EASTERN ELBERT COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM AT 5 15 PM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON... OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF RAMAH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN ELBERT COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS TRAVELING IN EASTERN ELBERT...EASTERN EL PASO..AND LINCOLN COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THROUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...AS THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. ...END...
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-040045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 548 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 ...MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN GRANADA... AT 540 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF GRANADA...BRISTOL AND HARTMAN. THIS STORM PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THE TOWN OF GRANADA. AT 545 PM THE STORM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF GRANADA...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERS*ONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD FIND SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-040045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 548 PM MDT TUE MAY 3 1994 ...MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN GRANADA... AT 540 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF GRANADA...BRISTOL AND HARTMAN. THIS STORM PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THE TOWN OF GRANADA. AT 545 PM THE STORM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF GRANADA...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD FIND SAFE SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 53 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.