Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 28, 1997Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 4:39 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
May 28, 1997, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1997, 5:40 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 28, 4:47 PM MDTHail 1Bristol, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 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.

981 
WUUS1 KPUB 282241 RRA
SVRPUB
COC099-282340-

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 540 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BRISTOL BY 440 PM
  GRANADA BY 450 PM
  HARTMAN BY 440 PM

* AT 438 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 2 MILES NORTH OF
  BRISTOL...OR 17 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF LAMAR MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS
LARGE HAIL.

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

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

SR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.