Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 4:31 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 232233 RRA SVRPUB COC101-232330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 431 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO PUEBLO COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF BEULAH BY 440 PM MDT. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS I-25 JUST NORTH OF COLORADO CITY BY 5 PM. AT 431 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE SEVERE STORM TO BE 5 MILES WEST OF BEULAH AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...GO TO AN INDOOR SHELTER... PREFERABLY A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FRO\M WINDOWS. 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 23, 3:44 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
COZ016-060-062-063-065>075-077-232215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 342 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE CANON CITY AREA BY 350 PM...INTO THE TRINIDAD AREA AROUND 4 PM AND TO THE PUEBLO AREA AFTER 5 PM MDT. AT 340 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG THE MOUNTAINS FROM NEAR CANON CITY TO THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS WEST OF WALSENBURG AND TRINIDAD TO THE SOUTH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR HILLSIDE COLORADO...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANON CITY WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING NORTH OF WESTCLIFFE AROUND 3 PM AND IN OAK CREEK...16 MILES SOUTH OF CANON CITY AT 331 PM. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN THE CUCHARA AREA ABOUT 15 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. WFF/LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:05 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
COZ016-060-062-063-065>075-077-232215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO HEADLINE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 405 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ..THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES.. THUNDESTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM MDT PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 400 PM MDT THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF CASTLE ROCK TO NEAR MONUMENT AND PALMER LAKE TO NEAR WOODLAND PARK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:06 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
COZ016-060-062-063-065>075-077-232215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 405 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ..THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERST EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES.. THUNDESTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM MDT PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 400 PM MDT THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF CASTLE ROCK TO NEAR MONUMENT AND PALMER LAKE TO NEAR WOODLAND PARK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:11 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ016-060-062-063-065>075-077-232215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO HEADLINE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 405 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ..THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST EL PASO AND TELLER COUNTIES.. THUNDESTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM MDT PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 400 PM MDT THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF CASTLE ROCK TO NEAR MONUMENT AND PALMER LAKE TO NEAR WOODLAND PARK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:22 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
COZ068-070-073-077-232310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 422 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 78 IN THE VICINITY OF BEULAH IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY BY 435...THEN WILL CROSS I-25 BETWEEN COLORADO CITY AND PUEBLO BY 5 PM. AT 420 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THIS STORM TO BE 25 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALSENBURG AND 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:24 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
COZ068-070-073-077-232310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 422 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 78 IN THE VICINITY OF BEULAH IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY BY 435...THEN WILL CROSS I-25 BETWEEN COLORADO CITY AND PUEBLO BY 5 PM. AT 420 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THIS STORM TO BE 25 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALSENBURG AND 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THES E STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. LARSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.