Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1994, 10:28 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 10:28 PM MDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 10:51 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 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
- 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 110430 RRA
SVRPUB
COC061-110500-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1028 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY AND MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 96 EAST OF
SHERIDAN LAKE.
AT 1025 PM MDT...A VERY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS FIVE MILES
EAST-SOUTHEAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
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 10, 4:49 PM MDT, 5 hours 39 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, 5 hours 38 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, 8:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 800 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 800 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THE STORM IN OTERO COUNTY WAS 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF HAWLEY OR 20 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH LA JUNTA BY 930 PM. THE STORM IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF KIM. MOVEMENT OF BOTH STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO EAST OF I-25 AND SOUTH OF LA JUNTA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 9:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 800 PM MDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 800 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THE STORM IN OTERO COUNTY WAS 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF HAWLEY OR 20 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH LA JUNTA BY 930 PM. THE STORM IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF KIM. MOVEMENT OF BOTH STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO EAST OF I-25 AND SOUTH OF LA JUNTA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LARSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 41 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.