Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:01 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 5:01 PM MDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 KPUB 222302 RRA SVRPUB COC071-222345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 501 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 160 EAST OF KIM THROUGH 545 PM MDT BRINGING 3/4 INCH OR GREATER HAIL. AT 5 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM TO BE 5 MILES EAST OF KIM IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. 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. LARSON
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
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:23 AM MDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
COZ016-060>065-067>081-060600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1120 AM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER ...SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN COUNTIES TODAY... SYNOPSIS: SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT AND AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN EASTERN COLORADO. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES WHERE THERE WILL BE MORE MOISTURE AVAILABLE ALONG WITH GREATER INSTABILITY. SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS WOULD BE IN THE FORM OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTERS ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON: LAS ANIMAS...PROWERS...BACA...BENT AND KIOWA. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS THAT MIGHT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON COULD BE STRONG...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
COZ067-068-071>073-222215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 324 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN OVER MONUMENT AND PALMER LAKE AREAS UNTIL 4 PM MDT. AT 320 PM THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 18 MILES NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS NEAR MONUMENT MOVING EAST AT 5 OR 10 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED HALF INCH HAIL IN THE MONUMENT AREA AT 315 PM MDT ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WILL ALLOW THE HAIL TO PILE UP IN THE MONUMENT AREA...HOWEVER THE HAIL SIZE SHOULD REMAIN AROUND 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
COZ067-068-071>073-222215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 324 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN OVER MONUMENT AND PALMER LAKE AREAS UNTIL 4 PM MDT. AT 320 PM THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 18 MILES NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS NEAR MONUMENT MOVING EAST AT 5 OR 10 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED HALF INCH HAIL IN THE MONUMENT AREA AT 315 PM MDT ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WILL ALLOW THE HAIL TO PILE UP IN THE MONUMENT AREA...HOWEVER THE HAIL SIZE SHOULD REMAIN AROUND 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:07 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ071-222310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 407 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD ALONG I-25 THROUGH 430 PM MDT. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. AT 405 PM MDT...THIS STORM WAS LOCATED AT THE JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY 83 AND I-25 JUST NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. MOTORISTS TRAVELLING ALONG I-25 AND HIGHWAY 83 NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE MOVING THROUGH THIS STORM DURING THE EVENING RUSH HOUR. HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL IS LIKELY TO GREATLY REDUCE VISIBILITY...AND MAY MAKE ROADWAYS SLICK. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:39 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
COZ071-072-222315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 439 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER ALONG HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN PEYTON AND CALHAN IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM MDT. TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED THAT THIS STORM PRODUCED 1/2 INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG I-25 NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. AT 440 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS STORM TO BE LOCATED OVER PEYTON IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT APPROXIMATELY 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THOSE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE URGED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LARSON &
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:40 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COZ071-072-222315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 439 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER ALONG HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN PEYTON AND CALHAN IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM MDT. TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED THAT THIS STORM PRODUCED 1/2 INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG I-25 NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS. AT 440 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS STORM TO BE LOCATED OVER PEYTON IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT APPROXIMATELY 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THOSE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE URGED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LARSON &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.