Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1994, 7:29 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1994, 7:29 PM MDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1994, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 190130 RRA SVRPUB COC061-190215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 729 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...WEST CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY AT 730 PM MDT...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST EAST AND NORTHEAST HASWELL IN KIOWA COUNTY MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY. TOWNS INCLUDED IN THE WARNING ARE GALATEA...HAWKINS AND EADS AS WELL AS MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN EADS AND HASWELL. 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, May 18, 4:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 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, 2 hours 54 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, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-190030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 542 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 10 PM MDT INCLUDES LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 535 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND NEARBY PLAINS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. BETWEEN ABOUT 445 AND 510 PM SMALL HAIL PILED UP TWO INCHES DEEP IN THE CITY OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS 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 STILL POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. BT
Special weather statement, May 18, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
COZ068>070-073>081-190030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 542 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 10 PM MDT INCLUDES LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 535 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND NEARBY PLAINS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. BETWEEN ABOUT 445 AND 510 PM SMALL HAIL PILED UP TWO INCHES DEEP IN THE CITY OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS 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 STILL POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. BT
Special weather statement, May 18, 7:05 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
COZ046-047-071-190210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 705 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM... AT 700 PM MDT THIS EVENING...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM SHAW SOUTHWARD ALONG THE LINCOLN COUNTY LINE WITH KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY NORTH OF HASWELL...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOYERO OR 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON...AND NEAR FLAGLER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHAT DURING THE LAST HOUR...BUT ARE STILL CAPABLE OF HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY BUT BRIEF PERIODS OF RAIN...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN LINCOLN COUNTY SHOULD HOWEVER REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK COVER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER BE OBSERVED OR A WARNING ISSUED. SO ...CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMdATION.
Special weather statement, May 18, 7:05 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
COZ046-047-071-190210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 705 PM MDT WED MAY 18 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM... AT 700 PM MDT THIS EVENING...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM SHAW SOUTHWARD ALONG THE LINCOLN COUNTY LINE WITH KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY NORTH OF HASWELL...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOYERO OR 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON...AND NEAR FLAGLER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHAT DURING THE LAST HOUR...BUT ARE STILL CAPABLE OF HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY BUT BRIEF PERIODS OF RAIN...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE EAST OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN LINCOLN COUNTY SHOULD HOWEVER REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK COVER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER BE OBSERVED OR A WARNING ISSUED. SO ...CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 40 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.