Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 4:39 PM MDT for Crowley County, Kiowa County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 5:18 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 052239 RRA SVRPUB COC025-061-089-052330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 439 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY...WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY ...NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IN THE VICINITY OF SUGAR CITY ALONG HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN 440 PM AND 500 PM MDT PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 440 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF ORDWAY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 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.
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, Aug 5, 12:27 PM MDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
COZ068-069-070-073-074-075-076-077-078-079-080-081-016-060-061- 062-063-064-065-066-067-071-072-052030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1227 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 1215 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY 15 MILES WEST OF ALAMOSA NEAR MONTE VISTA AND O RTHE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS IN THE VICINITY OF TRINIDAD. THESE STORMS WERE M ISOUTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE THE FIRST OF A NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SMALL HAIL OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. STORMS FROM THE MOUNTAINS EAST HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONALLY...LIGHTNING...WHICH IS OFTEN A HIGHLY UNDERESTIMATED DANGER...IS A THREAT WITH ALL STORMS TODAY. KEEP YOUR EYES TO THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON FOR THREATENING WEATHER. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE REGION IS SUCH THAT STORMS COULD DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY WITH LITTLE WARNING. SO...IF YOU SEE A STORM APPROACH...MOVE INDOORS AT ONCE AND TUNE INTO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LW
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 12:28 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
COZ068-069-070-073-074-075-076-077-078-079-080-081-016-060-061- 062-063-064-065-066-067-071-072-052030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1227 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 1215 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY 15 MILES WEST OF ALAMOSA NEAR MONTE VISTA AND O RTHE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS IN THE VICINITY OF TRINIDAD. THESE STORMS WERE M ISOUTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE THE FIRST OF A NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SMALL HAIL OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. STORMS FROM THE MOUNTAINS EAST HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONALLY...LIGHTNING...WHICH IS OFTEN A HIGHLY UNDERESTIMATED DANGER...IS A THREAT WITH ALL STORMS TODAY. KEEP YOUR EYES TO THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON FOR THREATENING WEATHER. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE REGION IS SUCH THAT STORMS COULD DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY WITH LITTLE WARNING. SO...IF YOU SEE A STORM APPROACH...MOVE INDOORS AT ONCE AND TUNE INTO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LW
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 12:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
COZ068-069-070-073-074-075-076-077-078-079-080-081-016-060-061- 062-063-064-065-066-067-071-072-052030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR WORD WRAP NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1227 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 1215 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY 15 MILES WEST OF ALAMOSA NEAR MONTE VISTA AND OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS IN THE VICINITY OF TRINIDAD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE THE FIRST OF A NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SMALL HAIL OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. STORMS FROM THE MOUNTAINS EAST HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONALLY...LIGHTNING...WHICH IS OFTEN A HIGHLY UNDERESTIMATED DANGER...IS A THREAT WITH ALL STORMS TODAY. KEEP YOUR EYES TO THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON FOR THREATENING WEATHER. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE REGION IS SUCH THAT STORMS COULD DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY WITH LITTLE WARNING. SO...IF YOU SEE A S TORM APPROACH...MOVE INDOORS AT ONCE AND TUNE INTO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LW
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-052250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 247 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... AT 245 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DEL NORTE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE IN THE VICINITY OF CENTER AND LA GARITA THROUGH 300 PM MDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO...WITH ANOTHER LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE PRIMARILY STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE THE FIRST OF A NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. AS THE AREA OF FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING SHIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON...SUBSEQUENT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR RAPIDLY...WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN LIKELY. 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. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KT
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:03 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ072-052310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 403 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY AND WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 24 NEAR CALHAN AND RAMAH BY 415 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 400 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELBERT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:21 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
COZ076-052325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 421 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST CROWLEY COUNTY EAST OF HIGHWAY 71 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 THROUGH 430 PM AND WILL PASS TO THE EAST OF SUGAR CITY BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 420 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF ORDWAY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 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. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.