Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1994, 6:35 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1994, 6:35 PM MDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1994, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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
- 224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 030036 RRA SVRPUB COC061-030115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 635 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD FORMED IN CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY 5 TO 6 MILES EAST OF EADS AT 635 PM MDT. NO MOVEMENT WAS AVAILABLE ON THIS STORM AT THIS TIME...MOST STORMS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY MOVING EAST 5 MPH IN THEIR EARLY STAGES. 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. GRAY WWUS34KLIT .
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, Jul 2, 3:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
COZ071-072-022240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 336 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 ...LONE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... AT 330PM MDT LIMON RADAR NOTED A THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 TO 25 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF ELLICOTT AND YODER OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO. THIS STORM DEVELOPED OVER THE PAST HOUR AND IS LIKELY TO MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 TO 20 MPH. IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY GUSTY WIND. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
COZ071-072-022240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 336 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 ...LONE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... AT 330PM MDT LIMON RADAR NOTED A THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 TO 25 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF ELLICOTT AND YODER OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO. THIS STORM DEVELOPED OVER THE PAST HOUR AND IS LIKELY TO MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 TO 20 MPH. IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY GUSTY WIND. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
COZ073>077-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 349 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTY LINE... AT 345 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTY LINE WEST OF PRITCHETT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE MAIN DANGER FROM STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING...BUT A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
COZ073>077-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 349 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTY LINE... AT 345 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTY LINE WEST OF PRITCHETT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE MAIN DANGER FROM STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING...BUT A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
COZ047-071-072-022345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 442 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY... SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY...GENERALLY SOUTH OF COLORADO HIGHWAY 94 LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 435 PM MDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORM IN A CLUSTER ALONG THE EL PASO/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF ELLICOTT AND YODER...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ELSEWHERE A WEAKER THUNDERSTORM EMBEDDED INAN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT NEAR SECURITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY STRONG WINDS...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH...POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BUT LITTLE IF ANY RAINFALL. A BRIEF MODERATE SHOWER COULD FALL WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
COZ047-071-072-022345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 442 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY... SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY...GENERALLY SOUTH OF COLORADO HIGHWAY 94 LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 435 PM MDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORM IN A CLUSTER ALONG THE EL PASO/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF ELLICOTT AND YODER...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ELSEWHERE A WEAKER THUNDERSTORM EMBEDDED INAN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF THE COLORADO SPRINGS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT NEAR SECURITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY STRONG WINDS...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH...POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BUT LITTLE IF ANY RAINFALL. A BRIEF MODERATE SHOWER COULD FALL WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 53 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.