Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1994, 1:32 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1994, 1:32 PM MDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1994, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 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, 7.5 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 241934 RRA SVRPUB COC101-242000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 132 PM MDT WED AUG 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AT 128 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND WAS LOCATED ABOUT 8 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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. 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, Aug 24, 12:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
COZ041-067-071-241930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 1228 PM MDT WED AUG 24 1994 ...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IN THE PIKES PEAK REGION... CLOUDS WERE INCREASING ACROSS THE WESTERN PIKES PEAK REGION THIS AFTERNOON ALONG WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. AT 1220 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM WOODLAND PARK AND THE UTE PASS WEST TO FLORISSANT...AND A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIOWA IN ELBERT COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...SOME MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR...WHILE THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN ELBERT COUNTY CONTINUES MOVING EAST ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY TO NEAR AGATE BY 130 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
Special weather statement, Aug 24, 1:15 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
COZ041-046-067-071-072-242020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 115 PM MDT WED AUG 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR KIOWA IN ELBERT COUNTY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE PIKES PEAK REGION AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. AT 100 PM MDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT LIMON INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIOWA...THIS STORM MAY BE PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE...A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE DOUGLAS/ELBERT COUNTY LINE APPROACHING ELIZABETH...AND SHOWERS ALONG THE RAMPART RANGE FROM THE UTE PASS NORTH TO THE PALMER DIVIDE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY...COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME HAIL... GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MAXWELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 39 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.