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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 26, 1995Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1995, 1:19 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1995, 1:19 PM MDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1995, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
41 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 19:27 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, 7.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KPUB 261919 RRA
SVRPUB
COC071-262000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
119 PM MDT MON JUN 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 12 BY 130 PM MDT THEN
ALONG I-25 IN THE VICINITY OF TRINIDAD AND STARKVILLE IN WESTERN LAS
ANIMAS COUNTY.
 
AT 119 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE SEVERE STORM 3
MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD MOVING SOUTH AT 15 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 26, 10:50 AM MDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
COZ016-060>065-067>081-060600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1050 AM MDT MON JUN 26 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

SYNOPSIS:  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
THIS AFTERNOON...LASTING INTO THE EVENING. THIS CONVECTION WILL RESULT
FROM A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PASSING THROUGH COLORADO...COUPLED
WITH A SLIGHTLY MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS TODAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:52 AM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
COZ016-060>065-067>081-060600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1050 AM MDT MON JUN 26 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

SYNOPSIS:  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
THIS AFTERNOON...LASTING INTO THE EVENING. THIS CONVECTION WILL RESULT
FROM A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PASSING THROUGH COLORADO...COUPLED
WITH A SLIGHTLY MORE UNSTABLE^ AIRMASS TODAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 12:41 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
COZ074-075-077-261945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1241 PM MDT MON JUN 26 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS I-25 AND INTO THE VICINITY OF
TRINIDAD BY 115 PM MDT.

AT 1240 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
TRINIDAD OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

LARSON

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.