Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1995, 3:35 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1995, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1995, 4:03 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 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 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 262137 RRA SVRPUB COC041-262215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 335 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO SPRINGS... RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHEAST PART OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH AND WILL CROSS THROUGH DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS BY 345 PM MDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DAMAGING WINDS WELL OVER 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. 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 26, 12:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-270600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1220 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 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 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TODAY... SYNOPSIS: SHOWERS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS WILL MOVE SLOWLY INTO THE LOWER ELEVATIONS BY LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. AS IN THE MOUNTAINS THE STORMS WILL BRING POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING TO COLORADO SPRINGS...PUEBLO...TRINDAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FORMAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY...BUT REPORTS OF FLOODING OR HEAVY RAIN WOULD BE APPRECIATED AND CAN BE FORWARDED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO THROUGH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS...IF NECESSARY. GTR
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 12:22 PM MDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-270600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 1220 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 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 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TODAY... SYNOPSIS: SHOWERS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS WILL MOVE SLOWLY INTO THE LOWER ELEVATIONS BY LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. AS IN THE MOUNTAINS THE STORMS WILL BRING POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING TO COLORADO SPRINGS...PUEBLO...TRINDAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FORMAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY...BUT REPORTS OF FLOODING OR HEAVY RAIN WOULD BE APPRECIATED AND CAN BE FORWARDED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO THROUGH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFHFICIALS...IF NECESSARY. GTR
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 3:11 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
COZ071-072-262230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 311 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO MOVE OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE AND SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS BY 330 PM. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. AT 310 PM MDT THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF BLACK FOREST AS WELL AS OVER WEST CENTRAL AREAS OF THE COUNTY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONGER AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 3:12 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
COZ071-072-262230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 311 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO MOVE OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE AND SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS BY 330 PM. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING SHOULD BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. AT 310 PM MDT THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF BLACK FOREST AS WELL AS OVER WEST CENTRAL AREAS OF THE COUNTY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONGER AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.
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.