Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1994, 7:40 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1994, 7:40 PM MDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1994, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 1292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 200142 RRA SVRPUB COC071-200245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 740 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...KIM...VILLEGREEN AND TOBE AT 735 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY RADAR 25 MILES WEST OF KIM IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY ENTER THE AREA AROUND KIM BY 830 PM AND WILL LIKELY MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 160 WEST OF KIM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST OF KIM TO 20 MILES NORTH OF KIM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY 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. LARSON
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 19, 4:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
COZ073-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD STORM MOVEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 430 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE PUEBLO AREA... AT 420 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTH TO JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THE STRONGEST IN THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS WITHIN THE CITY OF PUEBLO HAVE REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN WITH THESE STORMS. TRAVELLERS ALONG I-25 NORTH OF PUEBLO...IN THE CITY AND JUST EAST OF TOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 50 EAST SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SLOW FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
COZ073-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD STORM MOVEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 430 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE PUEBLO AREA... AT 420 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTH TO JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THE STRONGEST IN THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS WITHIN THE CITY OF PUEBLO HAVE REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN WITH THESE STORMS. TRAVELLERS ALONG I-25 NORTH OF PUEBLO...IN THE CITY AND JUST EAST OF TOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 50 EAST SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SLOW FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEALTHER INFORMATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
COZ012>014-016-023-060>066-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 500 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL MINERAL COUNTY INTO WESTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE EAST CENTRAL PORTION OF MINERAL COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE TOWN OF DEL NORTE BY 545 PM. THIS STORM DROPPED MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND OVER 1/2 OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN A SHORT TIME NEAR THE TOWN OF CREEDE. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS VERY QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM MOVE INDOORS OR TO A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE...SHERIFF...OR THE STATE PATROL FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DELOZIER : K -&.8nG~evBO2C*"2: >\RjR6J &"pvl.HJ2>>
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-200015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 514 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION THIS AFTERNOON... AT 505 PM..WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM WEST TO PUEBLO..NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY TO THE LIMON AREA IN LINCOLN COUNTY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN THIS AREA ALONG WITH PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. ALL OF THIS SHOWER ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. 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. R f j v6WWUS8 + 6WWUS @%x WUUS PWWUSr" 6WWUS 6WWUS $WWUS >~WWUSr lX WUUS 36WWUST !=`WWUS 3WWUS S6WWUSD <q`WWUS h fWWUS Da`WWUS qWWUS WWUSN p'`WWUS ;6WWUS WUUS \)c WUUS UNION PA) ZOIL CITYcQ`WWUS |sGWWUS$ Ya`WWUS mQ`WWUS u 6WWUS ^'WWUS XWOUS |f[6WWUS p WUUS| H^ WUUS Pgg6WWUSl lo WUUSt 4nqI`WWUS. xw6 WUUS _6WWUSX E6WWUSf |`WWUS YN6WWUSL (d6WWUS> U6WWUS lg WUUS xC`WWUS CREEK PARK (Z:OUNTAINSGBf6WWUS* TO LOWER 60S Ya`WWUS ..PATCHY MORNING AND LOW CLOUDS;ERWISE CLEAR. Ua`WWUS WITH 70S TO 90S Z6WWUS 8IGHT AND SUNDAY.Q6WWUS UDS NEAR THE O^'WWUS XWOUS |^ WUUS P_6WWUSd E6WWUSf YN6WWUSL (U6WWUS lC`WWUSH ]96WWUS LSEWHERE.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-200015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 514 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION THIS AFTERNOON... AT 505 PM..WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM WEST TO PUEBLO..NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY TO THE LIMON AREA IN LINCOLN COUNTY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN THIS AREA ALONG WITH PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. ALL OF THIS SHOWER ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:23 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
COZ012>014-016-023-060>066-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 500 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL MINERAL COUNTY INTO WESTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE EAST CENTRAL PORTION OF MINERAL COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE TOWN OF DEL NORTE BY 545 PM. THIS STORM DROPPED MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND OVER 1/2 OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN A SHORT TIME NEAR THE TOWN OF CREEDE. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS VERY QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM MOVE INDOORS OR TO A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE...SHERIFF...OR THE STATE PATROL FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DELOZIER
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.