Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:48 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 5:48 PM MDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 WUUS1 KPUB 222348 RRA SVRPUB COC009-099-230030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 548 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHERN BACA COUNTY...SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HIGHWAY 287 WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY THROUGH 630 PM MDT. AT 547 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED THE STORM TO BE LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR IN PROWERS COUNTY OR 15 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD IN BACA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 3:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 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, 2 hours 23 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, 1 hour 41 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, 1 hour 9 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, 1 hour 8 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, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 44 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.