Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1994, 8:55 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 1994, 8:55 PM MDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1994, 9:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Oct 1, 4:45 PM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
COZ079>081-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 445 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN SOUTHERN BENT AND SOUTHERN BACA COUNTIES... AT 440 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE IN SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR COLORADO AND IN SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY NEAR THE COLORADO/OKLAHOMA STATE LINE. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BENT COUNTY WILL BE MOVING INTO PROWERS COUNTY AFTER 500 PM. THE STORM`S MOTION WILL CARRY IT ACROSS HIGHWAY 287/385 JUST SOUTH OF LAMAR COLORADO. DRIVERS ALONG HIGHWAY 287/385 BETWEEN LAMAR AND SPRINGFIELD ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELLING THROUGH VISIBILITY REDUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. CASEY
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 4:53 PM MDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
COZ079>081-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 445 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN SOUTHERN BENT AND SOUTHERN BACA COUNTIES... AT 440 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE IN SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR COLORADO AND IN SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY NEAR THE COLORADO/OKLAHOMA STATE LINE. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BENT COUNTY WILL BE MOVING INTO PROWERS COUNTY AFTER 500 PM. THE STORM`S MOTION WILL CARRY IT ACROSS HIGHWAY 287/385 JUST SOUTH OF LAMAR COLORADO. DRIVERS ALONG HIGHWAY 287/385 BETWEEN LAMAR AND SPRINGFIELD ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELL,ING THROUGH VISIBILITY REDUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. CASEY
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 6:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
COZ080-081-020130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 615 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS ALONG THE BACA/PROWERS COUNTY LINE... AT 610 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS ALONG THE BACA/PROWERS COUNTY LINE 30 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR... WHICH IS 42 MILES EAST OF LA JUNTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAS BEEN MOVING SLOWLY AND DROPPING A LOT OF WATER SO PEOPLE TRAVELLING ALONG HIGHWAY 287/385 BETWEEN LAMAR AND SPRINGFIELD AND ANYONE NEAR LOW LYING AREAS AND CREEKS IN SOUTHEAST BENT...SOUTHERN PROWERS AND NORTHERN BACA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT AND WATCH OUT FOR FLOODING. DO NOT CROSS ROADS WERE WATER COVERS THE ROADS AND IF WATER LEVELS RISE HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND. CASEY
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 6:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
COZ080-081-020130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 615 PM MDT SAT OCT 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS ALONG THE BACA/PROWERS COUNTY LINE... AT 610 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS ALONG THE BACA/PROWERS COUNTY LINE 30 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR... WHICH IS 42 MILES EAST OF LA JUNTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAS BEEN MOVING SLOWLY AND DROPPING A LOT OF WATER SO PEOPLE TRAVELLING ALONG HIGHWAY 287/385 BETWEEN LAMAR AND SPRINGFIELD AND ANYONE NEAR LOW LYING AREAS AND CREEKS IN SOUTHEAST BENT...SOUTHERN PROWERS AND NORTHERN BACA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT AND WATCH OUT FORH FLOODING. DO NOT CROSS ROADS WERE WATER COVERS THE ROADS AND IF WATER LEVELS RISE HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND. CASEY
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.