Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1994, 6:40 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1994, 6:40 PM MDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1994, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 010041 RRA SVRPUB COC009-010130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 640 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...BACA COUNTY...INCLUDING SPRINGFIELD AT 637 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 4 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL...1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN PRITCHETT. 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, Jul 31, 5:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>078-312345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 500 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 455 PM MDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG AND NEAR THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...AND WERE SPREADING OVER THE PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF KIM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 25 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>078-312345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 500 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 455 PM MDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG AND NEAR THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...AND WERE SPREADING OVER THE PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF KIM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTNY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 25 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:43 PM MDT, 57 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>078-010045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 543 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 540 PM MDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MOVING OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY...EXTREME NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND EXTREME NORTHWEST BACA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH SOME STORMS...AND HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH STRONGER STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:57 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
COZ041-046-047-067-071-072-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 557 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... COLORADO... COLORADO... AT 550 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF TELLER COUNTY AS WELL AS THE WESTERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY...MOST OF ELBERT COUNTY AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF COLORADO SPRINGS...IN THE BRIARGATE AREA. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE MAJORITY OF THE RAINFALL IS ON THE LIGHT SIDE BUT BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN NOTED WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. GOUDSWARD
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:00 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
COZ041-046-047-067-071-072-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 557 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... COLORADO... COLORADO... AT 550 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF TELLER COUNTY AS WELL AS THE WESTERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY...MOST OF ELBERT COUNTY AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF COLORADO SPRINGS...IN THE BRIARGATE AREA. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE MAJORITY OF THE RAINFALL IS ON THE LIGHT SIDE BUT BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN NOTED WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOU.LD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. GOUDSWARD
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:03 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
COZ041-046-047-067-071-072-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 557 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 550 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF TELLER COUNTY AS WELL AS THE WESTERN HALF OF EL PASO COUNTY...MOST OF ELBERT COUNTY AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF COLORADO SPRINGS...IN THE BRIARGATE AREA. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE MAJORITY OF THE RAINFALL IS ON THE LIGHT SIDE BUT BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN NOTED WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIV:E INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. GOUDSWARD
Nearby
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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.