Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 6:54 PM MDT for Crowley County, Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1995, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1995, 7:34 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 210056 RRA SVRPUB COC025-061-210200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 654 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY...WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO HASWELL AND ARLINGTON IN WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY AROUND 715 PM MDT. THE LINE WILL PASS JUST EAST OF SUGAR CITY IN EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY BY 715 PM. GUSTY WINDS EXCEEDING 58 MPH...HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. AT 648 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS LINE EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKY FORD TO 20 MILES NORTH OF EADS. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERST ORMS CAN AND DO OCCASSIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE NOTICE. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE COVER IF A TORNADO APPROACHES. LW/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 20, 5:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
COZ080-081-210045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 540 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH PROWERS AND BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY OVER OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 89 15 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLY. OTHER STRONG STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 535 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONE STORM IN SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...10 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD IN SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
COZ080-081-210045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 540 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH PROWERS AND BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY OVER OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 89 15 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLY. OTHER STRONG STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 535 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ONE STORM IN SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...10 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD IN SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:00 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ075-077-210105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 600 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS NEAR HOEHNE AROUND 6 PM...THEN MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 160 EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 350 JUNCTION THROUGH 645 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 558 PM...THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD AND WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 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. SAR
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:22 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
COZ076-078-210125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 623 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KIOWA AND CROWLEY COUNTIES... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTIES AND KIOWA COUNTY BETWEEN 645 AND 700 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ARLINGTON AND HASWELL SHORTLY AFTER 715 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN...HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 618 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS LINE EXTENDING FROM KARVAL IN SOUTHERN LINCON COUNTY TO BURLINGTON IN KIT CARSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORM COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...AND BRING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR EVEN A SMALL SHORT-LIVED TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM...YOU ARE URGED TO FIND SHELTER BEFORE IT REACHES YOUR AREA. T STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:23 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
COZ076-078-210125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...FOR SPELLING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 623 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KIOWA AND CROWLEY COUNTIES... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY AND KIOWA COUNTY BETWEEN 645 AND 700 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ARLINGTON AND HASWELL SHORTLY AFTER 715 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN...HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 618 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS LINE EXTENDING FROM KARVAL IN SOUTHERN LINCON COUNTY TO BURLINGTON IN KIT CARSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORM COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...AND BRING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR EVEN A SMALL SHORT-LIVED TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM...YOU ARE URGED TO FIND SHELTER BEFORE IT REACHES YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:37 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
COZ076-078-210125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...FOR SPELLING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 623 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO KIOWA AND CROWLEY COUNTIES... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY AND KIOWA COUNTY BETWEEN 645 AND 700 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ARLINGTON AND HASWELL SHORTLY AFTER 715 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN...HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 618 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS LINE EXTENDING FROM KARVAL IN SOUTHERN LINCON COUNTY TO BURLINGTON IN KIT CARSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORM COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...AND BRING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR EVEN A SMALL SHORT-LIVED TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM...YOU ARE URGED TO FIND SHELTER BEFORE IT REACHES YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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.