Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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.