Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 3:51 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1995, 3:51 PM MDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1995, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 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 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 172151 RRA SVRPUB COC099-172240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 351 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WILEY AND HIGHWAY 287 NORTH OF WILEY THROUGH 430 PM MDT. AT 345 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF WILEY OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR IN NORTHWEST PROWERS COUNTY. STORM MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NJL
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 17, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
COZ075>077-079>081-172145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 240 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THROUGH AT LEAST 330 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG AT TIMES...WILL AFFECT LAS ANIMAS...EASTERN OTERO...BENT...AND BACA COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAS ANIMAS AT 235 PM...WILL BE NEAR THE JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR AROUND 315 PM AND HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN LAS ANIMAS AND LAMAR AROUND 330 PM. HEAVY RAIN OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH PER HOUR AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. &OW 60 TOEyA`WWUS X6WWUS _66WWUSH lAw` WUUS WWWUS\ |\Y`WWUS A WUUS pw WUUS e6WWUS \u 6WWUS pxWWUS ejWTNT |d<jWTNT Q6WWUS H^ WUUSB o6WWUS JjWTNT 95 .TONIGHT@"6WWUS bZ`WWUSv Ru@WTPZh u6WWUS MPH. .TUEWWUS34KSHV 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
COZ075>077-079>081-172145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 240 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THROUGH AT LEAST 330 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG AT TIMES...WILL AFFECT LAS ANIMAS...EASTERN OTERO...BENT...AND BACA COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAS ANIMAS AT 235 PM...WILL BE NEAR THE JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR AROUND 315 PM AND HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN LAS ANIMAS AND LAMAR AROUND 330 PM. HEAVY RAIN OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH PER HOUR AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. &OW 60 TOEyA`WWUS X6WWUS _66WWUSH lAw` WUUS WWWUS\ |\Y`WWUS A WUUS pw WUUS e6WWUS \u 6WWUS pxWWUS ejWTNT |d<jWTNT Q6WWUS H^ WUUSB o6WWUS JjWTNT 95 .TONIGHT@"6WWUS bZ`WWUSv Ru@WTPZh u6WWUS MPH. .TUEWWUS34KSHV 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
COZ067-071-072-172150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 250 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA THROUGH 400 PM...BRINGING GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MPH...HAIL 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER OR LESS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY BY 315 PM AND COLORADO SPRINGS FROM 330 PM TO 400 PM. PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 20 MPH AND WERE IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY AND ENTERING EXTREME NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY NEAR PALMER LAKE AT 247 PM. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. TLM WUUS01KWBC 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
COZ067-071-072-172150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 250 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA THROUGH 400 PM...BRINGING GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MPH...HAIL 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER OR LESS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY BY 315 PM AND COLORADO SPRINGS FROM 330 PM TO 400 PM. PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 20 MPH AND WERE IN NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY AND ENTERING EXTREME NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY NEAR PALMER LAKE AT 247 PM. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. TLM WUUS01KWBC 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 3:15 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ078>080-172220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN BENT COUNTY... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF PROWERS...OR 20 MILES EAST OF LAS ANIMAS...WILL AFFECT HASTY AND PROWERS THROUGH 345 PM...AND THEN CROSS HIGHWAY 50 EAST OF HASTY BETWEEN 330 PM AND 400 PM. AT 314 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. TLM WWUS30KPIT 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 3:15 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ078>080-172220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN BENT COUNTY... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF PROWERS...OR 20 MILES EAST OF LAS ANIMAS...WILL AFFECT HASTY AND PROWERS THROUGH 345 PM...AND THEN CROSS HIGHWAY 50 EAST OF HASTY BETWEEN 330 PM AND 400 PM. AT 314 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. TLM WWUS30KPIT 0
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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.