Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 9:53 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 9:53 PM MDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 030353 SVRPUB COC061-030445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 953 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 10 PM MDT. AT 952 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SHERIDAN LAKE IS NOT IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BUT MOTORISTS ON HIGHWAY 385 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THREATENING WEATHER. 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. SC
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 2, 4:37 PM MDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:28 PM MDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
COZ081-030030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 529 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSSTORM MOVING INTO BACA COUNTY... AT 520 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EXTREME EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN BACA COUNTY AND THE PRITCHETT AREA AROUND 600 PM. PERSONS IN WESTERN BACA COUNTY...ESPECIALLY THOSE AROUND PRITCHETT...SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER AS THIS THUNDERSTOR M MOVES THROUGH THE AREA EARLY THIS EVENING. HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. ALSO...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR THE EASTERN BORDER COUNTIES OF COLORADO INCLUDING BACA COUNTY. BT
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:29 PM MDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
COZ081-030030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 529 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSSTORM MOVING INTO BACA COUNTY... AT 520 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EXTREME EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN BACA COUNTY AND THE PRITCHETT AREA AROUND 600 PM. PERSONS IN WESTERN BACA COUNTY...ESPECIALLY THOSE AROUND PRITCHETT...SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA EARLY THIS EVENING. HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. ALSO...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR THE EASTERN BORDER COUNTIES OF COLORADO INCLUDING BACA COUNTY. BT
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
COZ076-078-030155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 620 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 615 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO CROWLEY AND KIOWA COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF HASWELL IN KIOWA COUNTY...AND ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORDWAY ALONG THE CROWLEY/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR THE EASTERN BORDER COUNTIES OF COLORADO. BT
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 9:42 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
COZ078-080-030530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 942 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN KIOWA COUNTY... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 THROUGH 1030 PM. THE STORM WILL BE CROSSING HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 1000 PM. AT 941 PM...THE STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EADS OR JUST SOUTH OF CHIVINGTON. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 9:43 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
COZ078-080-030530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 942 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN KIOWA COUNTY... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 THROUGH 1030 PM. THE STORM WILL BE CROSSING HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 1000 PM. AT 941 PM...THE STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EADS OR JUST SOUTH OF CHIVINGTON. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 11:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 12:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 1:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 47 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.