Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 5:06 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 5:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 182307 RRA SVRPUB COC099-190000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 506 PM MDT FRI AUG 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 385 THROUGH 550 PM MDT. IT WILL MOVE IN THE VICINITY OF HARTMAN THROUGH 525 PM MDT BRINGING VERY STRONG WINDS ...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 IN DIAMETER...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AT 405 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST PART OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF HARTMAN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 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 18, 11:45 AM MDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-180600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1145 AM MDT FRI AUG 18 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: A SUBSIDENCE INVERSION AT UPPER LEVELS WILL ACT TO CAP CONVECTION OVER THE MOST OF THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...ISOLATED ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS...SAN LUIS VALLEY AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS. THIS EVENING...A COLD FRONT WILL DROP INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ACCOMPANIED BY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. SINCE THE MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO WILL BE CONFINED MAINLY TO MID AND HIGH LEVELS...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LOCAL STRONG GUSTY WINDS BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER. THE COLD FRONT ARRIVING IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING WILL LIKELY CAUSE AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...BUT SINCE THE COOL OF THE NIGHT WILL BE UPON US...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. LW
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 12:00 PM MDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-180600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1145 AM MDT FRI AUG 18 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: A SUBSIDENCE INVERSION AT UPPER LEVELS WILL ACT TO CAP CONVECTION OVER THE MOST OF THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...ISOLATED ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS...SAN LUIS VALLEY AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS. THIS EVENING...A COLD FRONT WILL DROP INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ACCOMPANIED BY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. SINCE THE MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO WILL BE CONFINED MAINLY TO MID AND HIGH LEVELS...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LOCAL STRONG GUSTY WINDS BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER. THE COLD FRONT ARRIVING IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING WILL LIKELY CAUSE AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...BUT SINCE THE COOL OF THE NIGHT WILL BE UPON US...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. LW
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:35 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
COZ075-079-080-081-182315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 435 PM MDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON... A NARROW AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE AT 430 PM MDT. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH AND AREAS OF LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE NOTED. AT 430 PM THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A NARROW BAND ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE...LOCATED FOM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRINIDAD TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SC
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.