Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1997, 6:17 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1997, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1997, 7:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 6:25 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Haswell, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -133 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 300018 RRA SVRPUB COC061-300120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 617 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 720 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HASWELL THROUGH 630 PM HIGHWAY 96 FROW HASWELL TO EADS THROUGH 7 PM * AT 615 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 1 MILE NORTH OF HASWELL MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. AT THIS TIM:E...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS SEVERE STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MM
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.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 29, 1:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 1:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 148 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 CHALLENGE TNGT IS COVERAGE OF EVNG THUNDERSTORMS. SATELLITE AND WSR-88D SHOWING WIDESPREAD CONVECTION FIRING UP OVER THE MTNS AND MOVG EWRD OVER THE FTHLLS. SHORTWAVE THAT AFFECTED ERN CO MAY BE HINDERING CONVECTION ACROSS SE PLAINS AS ATMOSPHERE RECOVERS WITH TEMPS RUNNING BEHIND YESTERDAYS READINGS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...OUTFLOW BNDRYS REMAINING WILL LIKELY PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTION LATE THIS AFTN AND THIS EVNG ACROSS THE SE PLAINS ONCE CURRENT TSTMS BNDRYS INTERACT WITH THEM. JUICIEST MOISTURE REMAINING OVER KS WITH TEMPS IN THE LWR 90S AND DEWPOINTS IN THE LWR 60S...WITH HIGHEST CAPES THERE. WILL WAIT TO DECIDE ABOUT INCLUDING MENTION OF SEVERE IN FORECAST THIS EVNG. MOST AREAS EXPECTED TO SEE SCT TSTMS THIS EVNG WITH MOIST ATMOSPHERE FROM PLUME AND WEAK SHORTWAVES IN WRLY FLOW ALOFT. 500 TEMPS HAVE COOLED SO LAPSE RATES MUCH MORE IMPRESSIVE TODAY THAN PAST FEW DAYS. SR
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 509 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(MDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 0317 PM 13 ESE COLORADO CITY CO 0.75 INCH HAIL 08/29/97 HUERFANO
Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 509 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(MDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 0317 PM 13 ESE COLORADO CITY CO 0.75 INCH HAIL 08/29/97 HUERFANO
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 5:43 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
COZ073-300045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 543 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PUEBLO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND ACROSS THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 540 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STORMS STRETCHING FROM PUEBLO WEST INTO SOUTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. MOORE
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 5:44 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
COZ073-300045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 543 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PUEBLO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND ACROSS THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 540 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STORMS STRETCHING FROM PUEBLO WEST INTO SOUTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. MOORE
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 6:14 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
COZ076-078-300120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 614 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY AND KIOWA COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 71 THROUGH 630 PM...AND THEN INTO KIOWA COUNTY ACROSS THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON THROUGH 710 PM. ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 THROUGH 710 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 610 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ONE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF ARLINGTON. THE SECOND STORM WAS 1 MILE NORTH OF HASWELL IN KIOWA COUNTY. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. MOORE
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 6:15 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
COZ076-078-300120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 614 PM MDT FRI AUG 29 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY AND KIOWA COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 71 THROUGH 630 PM...AND THEN INTO KIOWA COUNTY ACROSS THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON THROUGH 710 PM. ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 THROUGH 710 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 610 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ONE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF ARLINGTON. THE SECOND STORM WAS 1 MILE NORTH OF HASWELL IN KIOWA COUNTY. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING 8CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. MOORE
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.