Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 9:44 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1994, 9:44 PM MDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1994, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 100347 RRA SVRPUB COC025-100445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 944 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 940 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF ORDWAY IN CROWLEY COUNTY...NEAR THE CROWLEY AND LINCOLN COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 9, 6:18 PM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
COZ046-100120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 618 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 ......THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR... AT 610 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS ...OVER ELBERT COUNTY...OTHERWISE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF THE ELBERT/ARAPAHOE COUNTY LINE WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR I-70 AND DEER TRAIL...AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THIS HUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY ...NORTHEAST OF AGATE...AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...NORTH OF LIMON. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM LOCATED BETWEEN BENNETT AND KIOWA IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY WILL ALSO MOVE INTO NORTHCENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIOWA IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD MENTIONED ABOVE. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SOME SMALL HAIL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS ARE NOT SEVERE AT PRESENT...AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO MORE FAVORABLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...THEY COULD POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE...SO CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:19 PM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
COZ046-100120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 618 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 ......THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR... AT 610 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS ...OVER ELBERT COUNTY...OTHERWISE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF THE ELBERT/ARAPAHOE COUNTY LINE WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR I-70 AND DEER TRAIL...AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THIS HUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY ...NORTHEAST OF AGATE...AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...NORTH OF LIMON. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM LOCATED BETWEEN BENNETT AND KIOWA IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY WILL ALSO MOVE INTO NORTHCENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIOWA IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD MENTIONED ABOVE. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SOME SMALL HAIL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS ARE NOT SEVERE AT PRESENT...AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO MORE FAVORABLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...THEY COULD POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE...SO CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:50 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 850 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO... AT 845 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH CHEYENNE COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KIOWA COUNTY BY 910 PM MDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. PERSONS IN THE EASTERN HALF OF KIOWA COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. REMEMBER THAT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KIOWA...NORTHERN PROWERS...NORTHERN OTERO...NORTHERN BENT AND CROWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM MDT.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:51 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 850 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN COLORADO... AT 845 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH CHEYENNE COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KIOWA COUNTY BY 910 PM MDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. PERSONS IN THE EASTERN HALF OF KIOWA COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. REMEMBER THAT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KIOWA...NORTHERN PROWERS...NORTHERN OTERO...NORTHERN BENT AND CROWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM MDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 9:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 10:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 10:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 10:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 10:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 11:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 11:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 11:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 11:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 12:44 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 2:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 15 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.