Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1994, 4:44 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1994, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1994, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 052252 RRA SVRPUB COC099-052330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 444 PM MDT THU MAY 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY AT 440 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 17 MILES EAST AND A LITTLE SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE TOWNS OF BARTON...HARTMAN AND HOLLY AS WELL AS HIGHWAY 50 EAST OF GRANADA. 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. 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, May 5, 2:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
COZ041-052240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 235 PM MDT THU MAY 5 1994 AT 3:30PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A LONE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST ELBERT COUNTY..ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON. THIS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN THE PAST HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED WITH THIS STORM. WIDELY SCATTERED LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THE REMINDER OF THE DAY. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 5, 2:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
COZ041-052240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 235 PM MDT THU MAY 5 1994 AT 3:30PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A LONE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST ELBERT COUNTY..ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON. THIS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN THE PAST HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED WITH THIS STORM. WIDELY SCATTERED LATE DAY THUND ERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THE REMINDER OF THE DAY. CROWLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 57 min |
| May 5, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 21 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.