Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1994, 3:52 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1994, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1994, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 032156 RRA SVRPUB COC011-032245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 352 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN BENT COUNTY...INCLUDING PERSONS IN ABLE AND PROWERS. AT 350 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAS ANIMAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 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. 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, Jul 3, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
COZ073>077-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 220 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... AT 215 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 32 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF THATCHER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS...HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
COZ073>077-032115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 220 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... AT 215 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 32 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF THATCHER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS...HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:55 PM MDT, 57 minutes before
COZ073>077-032145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 255 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 250 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF PUEBLO OVER THE PUEBLO RESERVOIR RECREATION AREA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE OVER THE CITY OF PUEBLO. GUSTY WINDS... LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED AND HAIL IS POSSIBLE. BOATERS AND SWIMMERS AT PUEBLO RESERVOIR SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:56 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
COZ073>077-032145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 255 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 250 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF PUEBLO OVER THE PUEBLO RESERVOIR RECREATION AREA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE OVER THE CITY OF PUEBLO. GUSTY WINDS... LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED AND HAIL IS POSSIBLE. BOATERS AND SWIMMERS AT PUEBLO RESERVOIR SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:44 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
COZ073>077-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 344 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN BENT COUNTY... AT 340 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN BENT COUNTY ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF LAS ANIMAS...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND LIGHTNING AND MAY PRODUCE HAIL. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:44 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
COZ073>077-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 344 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN BENT COUNTY... AT 340 PM MDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN BENT COUNTY ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF LAS ANIMAS...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND LIGHTNING AND MAY PRODUCE HAIL. PERSONS NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.
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 2, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 40 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.