Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 28, 1997Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 3:25 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1997, 3:25 PM MDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1997, 4:10 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

505 
WUUS1 KPUB 282127
SVRPUB

COC061-282210-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
325 PM MDT WED MAY 28 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 410 PM MDT
 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BRANDON
  340PM

* AT 320 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  BRANDON AT 315 PM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS
DAMAGING WINDS.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS SEVERE STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

JLH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.