Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 232330 RRA SVRPUB COC099-240030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 530 PM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...PROWERS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY AND INTO THE VICINITY OF LAMAR BY 545 PM BRINGING HAIL IN EXCESS OF 3/4 INCH AND DAMAGING WINDS. AT 530 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE SEVERE STORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DAMAGING WINDS WELL OVER 60 MPH. 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. 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 23, 11:30 AM MDT, 6 hours before
COZ016-060>081-240600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1130 AM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND IS EXPECTED TO EXIT THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE BY THIS EVENING. UPSLOPE FLOW IS EXPECTED TO BE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER TROUGH. THE UPSLOPE FLOW WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTENT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. WITH AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE AND STRONGER DYNAMICS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND COULD LAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE LARGE HAIL DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE COUNTIES WHERE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED ARE: BACA...PROWERS... KIOWA...BENT...CROWLEY...OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT PUEBLO AND EL PASO COUNTIES COULD EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER ON A MORE ISOLATED SCALE THIS AFTERNOON. WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED LOCATIONS. GTR
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-240600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1130 AM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND IS EXPECTED TO EXIT THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE BY THIS EVENING. UPSLOPE FLOW IS EXPECTED TO BE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER TROUGH. THE UPSLOPE FLOW WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTENT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. WITH AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE AND STRONGER DYNAMICS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND COULD LAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE LARGE HAIL DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE COUNTIES WHERE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED ARE: BACA...PROWERS... KIOWA...BENT...CROWLEY...OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT PUEBLO AND EL PASO COUNTIES COULD EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER ON A MORE ISOLATED SCALE THIS AFTERNOON. WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED LOCATIONS. GTR
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 12:30 PM MDT, 5 hours before
COZ068-231935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1230 PM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY AFFECTING MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 9 THROUGH 130 PM. THOSE DRIVING ALONG HIGHWAY 9 BETWEEN THE ROYAL GORGE AND GUFFEY IN PARK COUNTY CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 1227 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE STRONG STORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF GUFFEY ALONG THE PARK/FREMONT COUNTY LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE DRIVING...VISIBILITIES WILL BE GREATLY REDUCED DURING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON AND SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HYDROPLANING ON PONDED WATER ON ROADWAYS. YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO WAIT OUT THE STORM BY EXITING OR PULLING ALL THE WAY OFF THE ROADWAY. TURN YOUR FLASHERS ON SO CAN BE EASILY SEEN. NJL
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 1:24 PM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
COZ067-071-232030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 124 PM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER TELLER AND WESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF TELLER COUNTY WITH A FEW STORMS MOVING FROM THE FOOTHILLS INTO THE COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA. THESE STORMS WILL BE AFFECTING TELLER COUNTY AND WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY INTO THE MID PART OF THE AFTERNOON. AT 120 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORM TO BE 8 MILES NORTH OF WOODLAND PARK WITH ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. NJL
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
COZ077-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 408 PM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND WILL PASS INTO SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY BY 430 PM BRINGING HAIL TO 1/2 INCH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 406 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATE THE STRONGEST STORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DELHI OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF THATCHER. STORM MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...AND BRING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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. NJL
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:41 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
COZ079>081-232345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 441 PM MDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY CROSSING HIGHWAY 287/385 BY 500 PM BETWEEN LAMAR AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING HAIL TO 1/2 INCH DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 440 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR...18 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD AND 15 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR UPDATES ON THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. NJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 34 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.