Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 1:22 AM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 1:22 AM MDT (07:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 1:52 AM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1259 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 030722 RRA SVRPUB COC099-030800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 122 AM MDT MON JUL 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 145 AM MDT. AT 119 AM MDT RADAR INDICATED THIS SEVERE STORM WAS 15 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF HOLLY IN PROWERS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD REMAIN NORTH AND EAST OF HARTMAN THROUGH 145 AM MDT. 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.
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, 9:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 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, 3 hours 39 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, 11:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
COZ078-030600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1101 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THE STORMS SHOULD BE NEAR EADS BETWEEN 1115 AND 1130 PM. AT 1058 PM...THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF HASWELL AND 10 MILES WEST OF HASWELL. VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
COZ078-030615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1140 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH MOVING NEAR EADS BY 1140 PM MDT. THE STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 287 TO THE SOUTH OF EADS AROUND 1150 PM MDT SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 52 min |
| 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, 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.