Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 5:32 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1995, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 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 KCOS 052332 SVRCOS COC041-060030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 532 PM MDT FRI MAY 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A SVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY. RADAR AND SPOTTTER REPORTS INDICATED ONE INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THOSE AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. &
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 5, 2:21 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:21 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 221 PM MDT (321 PM CDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 WSR-88D RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE CO COUNTIES...AND ANOTHER BATCH OF PRECIPITATION NORTH OF GARDEN CITY. HOWEVER...LOW CLOUDS HAVE REALLY TAKEN THEIR TOLL ON SURFACE HEATING. THUS...SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY NEVER REALLY OCCURRED. MID LEVEL DYNAMICS SHOULD INCREASE OVER THE CWA TONIGHT...SO THINK HIGH POPS ARE IN ORDER ESPECIALLY FOR EASTERN COLORADO. STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...SO THINK MOS MINS TONIGHT LOOK TOO COOL. SHOULD HAVE A RETURN OF LOW CLOUDS TONIGHT GIVEN MOISTURE INFLUX AND UPSLOPE WINDS. SATURDAY LOOKS INTERESTING AS WESTERN KANSAS GETS DRY SLOTTED AFTER 1ST VORTICITY MAXIMUM MOVES NORTH. IF THIS OCCURS...AND ASSOCIATED LOWS CLOUDS ERODE...SURFACE HEATING AND INSTABILITY WILL BE MORE PRONOUNCED THAN TODAY. A DRY LINE IS ALSO PROGGED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON PROVIDING A FOCUSING BOUNDARY. CAPES AND HELICITIES ALL POINT TO MORE ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY ACROSS THE REGION SATURDAY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY AROUND THE HILL CITY/NORTON/ GOVE AREAS. GLD 47/68 73 HLC 49/69 57 CBK 48/69 64 MCK 48/68 57 TRB 48/68 73 5C0 46/68 93 MENTZER
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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.