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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 1995Bent County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa30 min
May 16, 5:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.