Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1994, 7:44 PM MDT for Bent County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 7:44 PM MDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 8:13 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 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 110147 RRA SVRPUB COC011-071-100245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 744 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHWESTERN BENT COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY AT 743 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF LA JUNTA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 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. 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 10, 4:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
COZ073>081-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 449 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 445 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE COLORADO/NEW MEXICO BORDER SOUTH OF TRINIDAD MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. MOTORISTS HEADING SOUTH OF TRINIDAD ON INTERSTATE-25 SHOULD USE CAUTION AS THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. NO OTHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS EVIDENT IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO AT 445 PM...BUT THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEMONSTRATE EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE EVENING. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE SKY THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. BT
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
COZ073>081-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 449 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 445 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE COLORADO/NEW MEXICO BORDER SOUTH OF TRINIDAD MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. MOTORISTS HEADING SOUTH OF TRINIDAD ON INTERSTATE-25 SHOULD USE CAUTION AS THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. NO OTHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS EVIDENT IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO AT 445 PM...BUT THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEMONSTRATE EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE EVENING. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE SKY THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 43 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.