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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 1, 1995Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1995, 6:42 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1995, 6:42 PM MDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1995, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 114 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 020044 RRA
SVRPUB
COC061-020130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
642 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...KIOWA COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF
EADS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN EADS AND SURROUNDING
AREA SHOULD MOVE TO COVER.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, Jul 1, 12:42 PM MDT, 6 hours before
COZ067-068-071>081-012030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1243 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 1235 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EL PASO COUNTY.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS
MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND SAN LUIS VALLEY WILL BE MOVING INTO
EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AFTER 130 PM.

SOME STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL...HEAVY
RAIN CAUSING TEMPORARY FLOODING OF STREETS...AND DAMAGING WINDS.

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.t

BT
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 12:43 PM MDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
COZ067-068-071>081-012030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1243 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 1235 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EL PASO COUNTY.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS
MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND SAN LUIS VALLEY WILL BE MOVING INTO
EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AFTER 130 PM.

SOME STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL...HEAVY
RAIN CAUSING TEMPORARY FLOODING OF STREETS...AND DAMAGING WINDS.

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.

BT

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.