Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1994, 4:41 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1994, 4:41 PM MDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1994, 5:13 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 3893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 182243 RRA SVRPUB COC025-182315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 441 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTH CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY AT 440 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES NORTH OF ORDWAY WHILE ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORDWAY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS WARNING INCLUDES HIGHWAY 71 NORTH OF ORDWAY IN CROWLEY COUNTY. 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.
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, May 18, 3:49 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
COZ047-182250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 349 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 345 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM...ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL... MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST EDGE OF LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KARVAL...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD EFFECT PUNKIN JUNCTION...AND PERSONS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 94 WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS...AND NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER FLOWING ACROSS THE ROADS. ...END...
Special weather statement, May 18, 3:51 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
COZ047-182250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 349 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 345 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM...ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL... MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST EDGE OF LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KARVAL...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD EFFECT PUNKIN JUNCTION...AND PERSONS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 94 WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS...AND NOW ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER FLOWING ACRO*SS THE ROADS. ...END...
Special weather statement, May 18, 3:57 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
COZ047-182250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 349 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 345 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM...ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL... MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST EDGE OF LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KARVAL...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD EFFECT PUNKIN JUNCTION...AND PERSONS TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 94 WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS...AND NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WADTER FLOWING ACROSS THE ROADS. ...END...
Special weather statement, May 18, 4:35 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 435 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 10 PM MDT INCLUDES LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 430 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND NEARBY PLAINS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY AND EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
Special weather statement, May 18, 4:35 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 435 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 10 PM MDT INCLUDES LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 430 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND NEARBY PLAINS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY AND EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 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.