Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1995, 3:28 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1995, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 4061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 302129 RRA SVRPUB COC041-302200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 328 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SLOWLY OVER NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 400 PM ABOUT NINE MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHAN. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WHICH MAY AFFECT NEARBY TOWNS INCLUDING PEYTON AND CALHAN ALONG WITH MOTORISTS ON HIGHWAY 24. 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. ,
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 30, 12:13 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
COZ016-060>065-067>081-060600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1200 PM MDT SUN JUN 30 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 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...A FEW MAY BE SEVERE... SYNOPSIS: THE AIRMASS REMAINS DRY IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE EXCEPTION IS NEAR THE KANSAS BORDER WHERE LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW IS BRINGING ABUNDANT MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. LOOK FOR WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM OVER THE MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 1 PM AND 2 PM WITH A FEW MOVING ONTO THE NEARBY PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LITTLE RAIN BUT COULD BRING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. ADDITIONALLY...A COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHERN WYOMING THIS MORNING WILL MOVE SOUTH OVER EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS EVENING. THIS FRONT SHOULD PASS THROUGH THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA AROUND 9 PM AND THROUGH PUEBLO AROUND 10 PM REACHING THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN BORDERS BY 2 AM. RAIN SHOWERS OR EVEN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS COLD FRONT TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH LOCALIZED WINdD GUSTS WITH THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HAYNES
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 1:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
COZ016-060-063-065-066-069>075-302100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 145 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO... AT 140 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE SANGRE DE CRISTO AND LA GARITA MOUNTAINS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN WESTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF SAGUACHE...AND IN WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY 20 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA GO TO SAFE SHELTER. BT
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:16 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ068>075-302235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 316 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PIKES PEAK REGION... AT 312 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED ON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. ONE STORM WAS IN NORTHEAST FREMONT COUNTY ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANON CITY AND ANOTHER STORM WAS DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHAN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS LOCAL WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. PEOPLE ACROSS THE PIKES PEAK REGION...THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. BT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.