Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1994, 5:44 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1994, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1994, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 182344 RRA SVRPUB COC061-190030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 544 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF CHIVINGTON...BRANDON ...SHERIDAN LAKE AND STUART. AT 540 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EADS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 18, 2:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
COZ073-076-077-182230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 255 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 250 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY SIX MILES NORTH OF THATCHER COLORADO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS HEAV8Y RAINS. PEOPLE TRAVELING NORTHEAST OF THATCHER ON HIGHWAY 350 SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS AND AVOID AREAS WERE WATER MAY COVER THE ROADS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER PUEBLO...SOUTHERN OTERO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. CASEY
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 2:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
COZ073-076-077-182230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 255 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... AT 250 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY SIX MILES NORTH OF THATCHER COLORADO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINS. PEOPLE TRAVELING NORTHEAST OF THATCHER ON HIGHWAY 350 SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS AND AVOID AREAS WERE WATER MAY COVER THE ROADS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER PUEBLO...SOUTHERN OTERO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. CASEY
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
COZ047-182220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 318 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 315 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ABOUT 10 TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON IN LINCOLN COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY MOVE THRU THE TOWN OF HUGO..LINCOLN COUNTY..IN THE NEXT 10 TO 20 MINUTES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
COZ047-182220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 318 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 315 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ABOUT 10 TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON IN LINCOLN COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY MOVE THRU THE TOWN OF HUGO..LINCOLN COUNTY..IN THE NEXT 10 TO 20 MINUTES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATrENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED. CROWLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:49 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST CO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 450 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 445 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH CROWLEY AND BENT COUNTIES AT 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF LAS ANIMAS IN BENT COUNTY. MOST OF BENT COUNTY CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 445 AND 545 PM THIS EVENING. OTHER LOCATIONS THAT CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE 600 PM THIS EVENING ARE WESTERN BACA...WESTERN KIOWA AND ALSO THE CITY OF LAMAR IN PROWERS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...CONSIDERABLE LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BT
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:50 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST CO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 450 PM MDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 445 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH CROWLEY AND BENT COUNTIES AT 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF LAS ANIMAS IN BENT COUNTY. MOST OF BENT COUNTY CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 445 AND 545 PM THIS EVENING. OTHER LOCATIONS THAT CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE 600 PM THIS EVENING ARE WESTERN BACA...WESTERN KIOWA AND ALSO THE CITY OF LAMAR IN PROWERS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...CONSIDERABLE LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 min |
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.