Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1995, 4:15 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1995, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 182214 RRA SVRPUB COC101-182315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 415 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR BEULAH BY 430 PM MDT AND WILL CROSS I-25 NEAR COLORADO CITY BY 500 PM MDT. HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. AT 415 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEULAH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING. GO TO A STRONG BUILDING AND GET TO THE LOWEST LEVEL AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING IS A DANGER WITH EVERY THUNDERSTORM...SO TRY TO GET INDOORS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE... GET IN A VEHICLE...DO NOT TOUCH METAL OBJECTS...AND AVOID WATER. KT
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 18, 3:20 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ068-069-070-071-072-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 320 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR EL PASO COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EL PASO COUNTY...EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...CASCADE AND MANITOU SPRINGS AREA BY 330 PM MDT...AND INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 345 AND 415 PM MDT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96. THIS STORM WILL BE APPROACHING WETMORE AND GREENWOOD BY 415 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AT 315 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONE STORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANYON CITY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:20 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ068-069-070-071-072-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR SPELLING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 320 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR EL PASO COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EL PASO COUNTY...EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...CASCADE AND MANITOU SPRINGS AREA BY 330 PM MDT...AND INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 345 AND 415 PM MDT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96. THIS STORM WILL BE APPROACHING WETMORE AND GREENWOOD BY 415 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AT 315 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONE STORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANON CITY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:22 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
COZ068-069-070-071-072-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR SPELLING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 320 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR EL PASO COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EL PASO COUNTY...EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...CASCADE AND MANITOU SPRINGS AREA BY 330 PM MDT...AND INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 345 AND 415 PM MDT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96. THIS STORM WILL BE APPROACHING WETMORE AND GREENWOOD BY 415 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AT 315 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONE STORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANON CITY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:48 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
COZ016-062-065-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 348 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SAGUACHE AND CHAFFEE COUNTY... SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN CHAFFEE AND EASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 345 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONE STRONG STORM JUST WEST OF SALIDA. OTHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY COVERED EASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:04 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
COZ073-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 405 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY TO NEAR BEULAH BETWEEN 415 AND 430 PM MDT AND APPROACHING I-25 SOUTH OF PUEBLO AROUND 500 PM MDT. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL LESS THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 405 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEULAH. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:05 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
COZ073-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 405 PM MDT TUE JUL 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY TO NEAR BEULAH BETWEEN 415 AND 430 PM MDT AND APPROACHING I-25 SOUTH OF PUEBLO AROUND 500 PM MDT. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL LESS THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 405 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEULAH. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 39 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.