Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 6:03 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 6:03 PM MDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 6:27 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 160006 SVRPUB COC011-160045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 603 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHERN BENT COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN BENT COUNTY AT 6 PM MDT. THE STORM IS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAS ANIMAS AND TRACKING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT PEOPLE ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR LAS ANIMAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAIN FLOODS ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED UNDERPASSES OR FAST MOVING WATER ON ROADS.
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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 15, 3:33 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 331 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 331 LMDT KIOWA/2 MI E OF BRANDON 3/4 TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL. 2131Z GTR/SR/PW
Local storm report, May 15, 4:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 404 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 354 MDT KIOWA/VCNTY OF BRANDON 3/4 INCH HAIL. 2154Z GTR/SR/PW
Local storm report, May 15, 4:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 454 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 420 vMDT KIOWA/S OF SHERIDAN LAKE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED GROUND. 2220Z 445 MDT KIOWA/SE PRTN OF COUNTY TORNADO. 2245Z
Local storm report, May 15, 5:05 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 504 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 500 MDT PROWERS/3 NW WILEY 1 INCH HAIL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 16, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 54 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.