Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 5:55 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 5:55 PM MDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 KDEN 162358
SVRDEN
COC073-170045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
555 PM MDT TUE MAY 16 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
SOUTHERN LINCOLN
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
FORDER...KARVAL AND WILD HORSE POINT
AT 553 PM MDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
ON HIGHWAY 71...ABOUT 44 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL BE MOVING JUST SOUTH OF
KARVAL BY 615 PM.
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY
SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENTx
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
LAT...LON 3856 10317 3852 10366 3858 10380 3882 10368
3886 10322
BARJENBRUCHWhat 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
COZ040-043>047-180000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 415 PM MDT TUE MAY 16 1995 AT 412 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF DENVER...OR JUST SOUTH OF THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF LIMON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THESE STORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF INTENSIFYING AND BECOMING SEVERE THIS EVENING. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 16, 5:10 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
COZ041-046-047-180100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 510 PM MDT TUE MAY 16 1995 AT 508 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS OVER SOUTHEAST ELBERT AND WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THESE STORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF BECOMING SEVERE. IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER...PASS THE INFORMATION ALONG TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BARJENBRUCH
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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.