Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1994, 5:27 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1994, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 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 052326 RRA SVRPUB COC101-060000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 527 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AT 525 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 12 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. 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. MdOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Aug 5, 3:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-052235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 331 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EL PASO..ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE TOWNS OF COLORADO SPRINGS LIMON AND KIOWA... AT 330 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER COLORADO SPRINGS TO THE EL PASO/DOUGLAS COUNTY LINE AND TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS AROUND COLORADO SPRINGS IN THE PAST 1/2 HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER TELLER COUNTY..ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. 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 IS OBSERVED. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-052235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 331 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EL PASO..ELBERT AND LINCOLN COUNTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE TOWNS OF COLORADO SPRINGS LIMON AND KIOWA... AT 330 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER COLORADO SPRINGS TO THE EL PASO/DOUGLAS COUNTY LINE AND TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS AROUND COLORADO SPRINGS IN THE PAST 1/2 HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER TELLER COUNTY..ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. 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 IS OBSERVED. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
COZ067-071-052310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 407 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR LINCOLN...ELBERT AND EL PASO COUNTIES... AT 400 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THUNDERSTORMS CONCENTRATED IN TELLER AND WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 12 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF CRIPPLE CREEK EASTWARD TO CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN THEN SOUTHEAST ALONG I-25 TO THE PUEBLO COUNTY LINE. ANOTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MT DECEPTION WEST OF PALMER LAKE. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS OVER TELLER AND SOUTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO FREMONT AND PUEBLO COUNTY OVER THE NEXT HOUR...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA AND THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS. OVER THE LAST HOUR RAINFALL REPORTS HAVE BEEN IN THE HALF INCH OR LESS RANGE...BUT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN FREQUENT AND HAIL HAS GENERALLY BEEN PEA TO MARBLE SIZED IN THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
COZ067-071-052310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 407 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR LINCOLN...ELBERT AND EL PASO COUNTIES... AT 400 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THUNDERSTORMS CONCENTRATED IN TELLER AND WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 12 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF CRIPPLE CREEK EASTWARD TO CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN THEN SOUTHEAST ALONG I-25 TO THE PUEBLO COUNTY LINE. ANOTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MT DECEPTION WEST OF PALMER LAKE. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS OVER TELLER AND SOUTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO FREMONT AND PUEBLO COUNTY OVER THE NEXT HOUR...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA AND THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS. OVER THE LAST HOUR RAINFALL REPORTS HAVE BEEN IN THE HALF INCH OR LESS RANGE...BUT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN FREQUENT AND HAIL HAS GENERALLY BEEN PEA TO MARBLE SIZED IN THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ^THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:16 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
COZ078-060030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 518 PM MDT THU AUG 4 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 510 PM MDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR PIKES PEAK TO JUST NORTH OF TRINIDAD...WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS MOVING THROUGH PUEBLO COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS SHOULD BE EXPECTED...AND SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE. IF THUNDERSTORM6S APPROACH YOUR AREA STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM DOOR AND WINDOWS.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:27 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
COZ067-071-060030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 527 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR LINCOLN--ELBERT AND EL PASO COUNTIES... AT 515 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER TELLER AND SOUTHWEST EL PASO COUNTIES OF COLORADO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH TO THE PUEBLO AREA BUT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ADDITIONALLY..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTH AND EAST OF THE DENVER METRO AREA. ALL OF THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 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.