Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 2:35 PM MDT for Alamosa County, Rio Grande County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 2:35 PM MDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 292036 RRA SVRPUB COC003-105-292115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 235 PM MDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH COLORADO ...ALAMOSA COUNTY...EASTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY VERY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST RIO GRANDE COUNTY WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO ALAMOSA COUNTY BY 245 PM. PERSONS IN ALAMOSA AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL AS WELL AS STRONG WIND GUSTS. AT 230 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTE VISTA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 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.
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 29, 11:40 AM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-300600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1140 AM MDT THU JUN 29 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 ...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SYNOPSIS: COOL...DEEP MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF TODAY IN THE AREA. WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP. NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE THOUGH. WITH THE LACK OF STRONG CONVECTIVE...THE CHANCE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN HAS DIMINISHED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:41 AM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-300600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1140 AM MDT THU JUN 29 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 ...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SYNOPSIS: COOL...DEEP MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF TODAY IN THE AREA. WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADOL...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP. NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE THOUGH. WITH THE LACK OF STRONG CONVECTIVE...THE CHANCE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN HAS DIMINISHED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:52 AM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
COZ060-291900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1152 AM MDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SAGUACHE COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF SAGUACHE COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 114 AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 285 THROUGH 100 PM MDT. THE STORM WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO THE AREA. AT 1250 AM MDT DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THAT THE STORM WAS 19 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF SAGUACHE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS NEEDED. GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:55 AM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
COZ060-291900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1152 AM MDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SAGUACHE COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF SAGUACHE COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 114 AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 285 THROUGH 100 PM MDT. THE STORM WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO THE AREA. AT 1250 AM MDT DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THAT THE STORM WAS 19 MILES WEST SOUpTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF SAGUACHE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS NEEDED. GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:54 PM MDT, 41 minutes before
COZ060>064-292045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 154 PM MDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING TO THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. AT 150 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM TWO MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA GARITA IN SAGUACHE COUNTY...WITH ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF MONARCH IN SOUTHWEST CHAFFEE COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH. PEOPLE DRIVING IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...ALONG WITH REDUCED VISIBILITIES ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:55 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
COZ060>064-292045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 154 PM MDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING TO THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. AT 150 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM TWO MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA GARITA IN SAGUACHE COUNTY...WITH ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF MONARCH IN SOUTHWEST CHAFFEE COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH. PEOPLE DRIVING IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY 6THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...ALONG WITH REDUCED VISIBILITIES ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. GTR
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.