Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 5:33 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1995, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1995, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elbert County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 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 192333
SVRDEN
COC039-200015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
533 PM MDT FRI MAY 19 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
EASTERN ELBERT
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
AGATE...CEDAR POINT...AND RIVER BAND
AT 532 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF AGATE ...OR ABOUT
27 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON.
THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH AGATE BY
545 PM...AND THEN RIVER BAND BY 605 PM.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
LAT...LON 3928 10375 3932 10398 3950 10419 3956 10416
3954 10375
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 19, 3:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
COZ040>045-048>050-202230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 326 PM MDT THU MAY 18 1995 AT 324 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE NORTH SIDE OF DENVER...NEAR COMMERCE CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND LIKELY CONTAINED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 MPH...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH A ND WEST OF LIMON...AND 5 MILES NORTH OF STERLING. THEY WERE ALSO MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WHEN THUNDERTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 19, 3:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
COZ040>050-090-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 357 PM MDT THU MAY 18 1995 AT 354 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO. ONE STORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 20 MILES EAST OF DENVER...OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LIMON...AND STILL ANOTHER WAS ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF STERLING. THESE STORMS ALSO CONTAINED HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BY 5 PM...THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM 15 MILES EAST OF LIMON TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...AND OTHER STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO PHILLIPS AND EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTIES. WHEN THUNDERTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, May 19, 4:53 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
COZ041-045>047-090-192350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 453 PM MDT FRI MAY 19 1995 AT 450 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES EAST OF DENVER...NEAR DEER TRAIL. THIS STORM CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS DOUGLAS...SOUTHEAST ELBERT... AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF LIMON. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BY 6 PM...THE STRONGEST STORM WILL BE LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF LIMON. WHEN THUNDERTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROMx WINDOWS. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 29 min |
| May 18, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Jefferson | 20 min |
| May 19, 4:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 19 min |
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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.