Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1999, 6:05 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 23, 1999, 6:05 PM MDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1999, 7:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 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 00:04 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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
- 670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 240001 RRA SVRPUB COC061-240105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 605 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 705 PM MDT * AT 600 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM OVER TOWNER... 30 MILES EAST OF EADS...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE TOWNER THROUGH 615 PM AND OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 385 THROUGH 700 PM AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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. KT/RMG
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 Jun 23, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST8 DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 200 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1999 FORECAST CHALLENGE FOR THE SHORT TERM IS THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CWFA THIS EVENING. 500MB RIDGE CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST US WITH LIGHT WESTERLY FLOW AT MOST LEVELS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE. PROFILER SHOWS EASTERLY FLOW IN FIRST 2 GATES AND MODELED SOUNDINGS SUGGEST THAT WILL LINGER INTO THE EVENING. WEAK MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE WILL EXIT THE REGION BY 00Z BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS AS TO WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH STRENGTH IN THE LOW LEVEL FLOW TO PRODUCE -TSRA. SHORT WAVE MOVES OUT OF CWFA TONIGHT LEAVING THURSDAY WITH LIGHT WINDS ALOFT AND A SIMILAR LOW LEVEL PATTERN AND SIMILAR TSTM COVERAGE. LOOKS LIKE THE SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER RIDGE AND THE WARM AIR ALOFT SHOULD KEEP THINGS QUIET OVER THE MOUNTAIN AREAS AND ADJACENT PLAINS TONIGHT. STILL SOME CONCERN OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION WHERE SOME CU FORMED AT MIDDAY. CU HAS BEEN FLAT WITH VERY LITTLE UPWARD GROWTH. BEST INSTABILITY REMAINS ALONG EASTERN BORDER BUT THAT AREA HAS BEEN SLOW TO WARM UP AFTER THIS MORNINGS LOW CLOUDS. EXPECT TSTMS TO START FORMING OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST BACA AND EAST PROWERS SOON THEN END AFTER SUNSET. EXTENDED PACKAGE PATTERN REMAINS THE SAME ALOFT THROUGH FRIDAY WITH RIDGE FLATTENING SOME SATURDAY. WILL KEEP SATURDAY DRY IN THE EXTENDED AND KEEP CHANCE IN MOST AREAS FOR SUN AND MON AS SOUTHWvEST FLOW RETURNS. MRF SEEMS TO WANT TO KEEP THE STORM TRACK WELL TO OUR NORTH SO PRECIP PROBABILITIES WILL BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS. .PUB...NONE. FORTUNE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:07 PM MDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
COZ058>081-231500- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO NOON MDT WED JUN 23 1999 THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MIGHT BE NECESSARY ALONG THE EASTERN BORDER... THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO HAS BECOME MORE STABLE EXCEPT IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST. FOR THE MOST PART THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED IN ALL BUT PROWERS AND BACA COUNTIES. IF STORMS DEVELOP IN THE SOUTHEAST THERE IS A CHANCE THAT ONE OR TWO OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. ALLP THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP TODAY WILL BE CAPABLE OF DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:12 PM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
COZ058>081-241500- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 700 AM MDT THU JUN 24 1999 THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY... LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PERSIST TODAY OVER THE REGION TODAY. THIS WILL ALLOW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE MOUNTAINS AND ALONG THE FAR EAST PLAINS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS DUE TO INCREASING TEMPERATURES ALOFT...AND LACK OF ANY UPPER LEVEL FORCING. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP TODAY WILL BE CAPABLE OF DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. HODANISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 11:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.