Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Pueblo, CO

Issued

Jun 8, 1998, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)

Expired

Jun 8, 1998, 8:05 PM MDT

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Pueblo, CO

Area

Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
704 PM MDT MON JUN 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 805 PM MDT

* AT 705 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 17 MILES EAST OF
  COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE ELLICOTT THROUGH 715 PM MDT AND
HIGHWAY 94 BETWEEN PETERSON AFB AND YODER THROUGH 715 PM MDT.  AT
THIS TIME.. .THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS LARGE
HAIL.  IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO SAFETY IN A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST
PROTECTION.  SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

LW

NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 2:00 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
200 PM MDT MON JUN 8 1998

...MAIN CHALLENGE TONIGHT IS COVERAGE OFF SHOWERS AND ANY THUNDERSTORM
AND MINIMUM TEMPS...

PRESENT SITUATION SHOWS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IN WESTERN KANSAS WITH
EASTERN COLORADO IN THE BACKWASH.  JUST SCATTERED MID LEVEL CLOUDS IN
SOUTHEAST COLORADO AWAY FROM THE MOUNTAINS...BUT SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS
ARE POPPING UP AT THIS TIME IN EL PASO COUNTY AND ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
SHOWERS IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHERN COLORADO.  DEW POINTS ARE IN
THE 40S IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO BUT ONLY IN THE 20S AND 30S
ELSEWHERE...SO THE VIRGA/SHOWERS COULD BE GENERATING SOME LOCALLY GUSTY
WINDS.  LITTLE IF ANY INSTABILITY NOTED ON SOUNDINGS OR IN MODELS IN
OUR CWFA AND SOME CIN.  LITTLE UPPER FORCING NOTED IN AREA EITHER.  SO
MOST CONVECTION IS TERRAIN INDUCED.  ETA SEEMS TO SUGGEST THAT WE WILL
BE ON THE LEFT REAR QUADRANT OF A JETLET LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...WHICH WOULD MEAN SOME DOWNWARD MOTION.

EXPECT SHOWERS OR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO BE ISOLATED OR SCATTERED IN THE
HIGHER TERRAIN AND ADJACENT PLAINS.  BIGGEST THREAT WOULD BE GUSTY WIND
FROM PARTIAL OR TOTAL EVAPORATION OF SHOWERS.  SHOWERS SHOULD DIE OFF
WITH LOSS OF HEATING IN EARLY EVENING.

ETA SUGGESTS SOME HIGHER DEW POINT AIR INTO SOUTHEAST AREA LATE
TONIGHT...BUT NGM NOT SO AGGRESSIVE WITH MOISTENING.  THEREFORE MAY
THROW SOME CLOUDS INTO SOUTHEAST ZONES AFTER MIDNIGHT...AS SUGGESTED BY
GCK TAF.

MOS TEMPS IN THE BALLPARK...WITH LIGHT WINDS AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES
DEVELOPING.  WON'T STRAY TOO FAR.  WILL BE HARD TO BEAT GUIDANCE AND
PREDICT A MEASURE OF RAINFALL AT THE OFFICIAL SITES...SOZ WILL GO ALONG
WITH PRECIP GUIDANCE.

TLM

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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.