Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1995, 6:34 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1995, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 100034 RRA SVRPUB COC009-100100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 634 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD IN BACA COUNTY... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 287/385 JUST NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD IN BACA COUNTY BY 645 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. AT 635 PM THE STORM WAS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. MOVEMENT OF THE SEVERE STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 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 9, 5:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
COZ077-092355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 504 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...BRINGING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL...WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTY IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY WEST AND NORTH OF THE TOWN OF KIM THROUGH 545 PM. AT 500 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE STORM WAS 15 MILES WEST OF KIM MOVING NORTHEASFT AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE STORM...INCLUDING MOTORISTS ON US 160...SHOW BE PREAPRED FOR THE STORM. WOLYN
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
COZ080-081-100020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 516 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 615 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 510 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES AND 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES IN BACA COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE ON HIGHWAY 287/385 IN NORTHERN BACA COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ADVERSE DRIVING CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
COZ080-081-100020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 516 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 615 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 510 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES AND 1f3 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES IN BACA COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE ON HIGHWAY 287/385 IN NORTHERN BACA COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ADVERSE DRIVING CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
COZ074-075-100035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 528 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST NEAR HIGHWAY 350 IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BETWEEN 530 AND 630 PM MDT AND WILL AFFECT PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF THATCHER AND DELHI. HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A 525 PM THE STORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THATCHER AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU WILL BE TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 350 IN NORTHERN BACA COUNTY OR IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THATCHER OR DELHI KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:54 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
COZ077-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 554 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...WITH THE STRONGEST STORM REMAINING OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTHWEST OF KIM BETWEEN 600 PM AND 700 PM. EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER TO ACCOMPANY STORMS IN THIS AREA. AT 555 PM MDT THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIM AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 6:26 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
COZ081-100115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 626 PM MDT WED AUG 9 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WIND AND HEAVY RAIN IN BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BACA COUNTY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SPRINGFIELD AREA...AS WELL AS ACROSS HIGHWAY 160 BETWEEN PRITCHETT AND SPRINFIELD...AND HIGHWAY 287/385 NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD BETWEEN 625 AND 715 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND VERY STRONG WINDS AS WELL AS HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 625 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 6 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD AND 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN SPRINGFIELD AND MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAYS 160 AND 287/385 IN NORTHERN BACA COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
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.