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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 1994Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1994, 3:41 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1994, 3:41 PM MDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1994, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2432 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 29, 3:01 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:03 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:09 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-292210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
309 PM MDT FRI JUL 29 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF WALSENBURG AT 3 PM MDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS IT MOVED THROUGH EASTERN HUERFANO
COUNTY TO THE SOUTHEAST 30 MPH.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN BACA TO SOUTHERN PROWERS
COUNTIES.

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE DETECTED...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER
SITUATION.

GRAY
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:10 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-292210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
309 PM MDT FRI JUL 29 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF WALSENBURG AT 3 PM MDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS IT MOVED THROUGH EASTERN HUERFANO
COUNTY TO THE SOUTHEAST 30 MPH.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN BACA TO SOUTHERN PROWERS
COUNTIES.

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE DETECTED...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER
SITUATION.

GRAY
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:23 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-292210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT FRI JUL 29 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF WALSENBURG AT 3 PM MDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THEY MOVED THROUGH EASTERN
HUERFANO COUNTY TO THE SOUTHEAST 30 MPH.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN BACA TO SOUTHERN PROWERS
COUNTIES.

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE DETECTED...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER
SITUATION.

GRAY
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:24 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-292210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT FRI JUL 29 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF WALSENBURG AT 3 PM MDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THEY MOVED THROUGH EASTERN
HUERFANO COUNTY TO THE SOUTHEAST 30 MPH.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL AND
NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN BACA TO SOUTHERN PROWERS
COUNTIES.

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE DETECTED...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONC4ERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER
SITUATION.

GRAY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa32 min

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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.