Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1995, 7:09 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1995, 7:09 PM MDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1995, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 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 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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
- 1211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 010110 RRA SVRPUB COC009-010215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 709 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN BACA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 116 EAST OF TWO BUTTES BY 720 PM MDT. AT 708 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TWO BUTTES. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DAMAGING WINDS WELL OVER 60 MPH. GO TO A STRONG BUILDING AND GET TO THE LOWEST LEVEL A*WAY 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 31, 3:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
COZ076-312235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST CROWLEY COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY CROSSING HIGHWAY 71 IN EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. AT 315 PM THE STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY AND WAS MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 3:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
COZ076-312235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST CROWLEY COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY CROSSING HIGHWAY 71 IN EASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. AT 315 PM THE STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY AND WAS MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 3:58 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
COZ076-312315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 358 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 ...THUNDERSTORM HEADED FOR ORDWAY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHWEST THROUGH CROWLEY COUNTY AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF ORDWAY AND CROWLEY BY 430 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. AT 355 PM MDT THE STORM WAS 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY AND WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS... TRAVELERS SHOULD USE CAUTION.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 3:59 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
COZ076-312315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 358 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 ...THUNDERSTORM HEADED FOR ORDWAY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHWEST THROUGH CROWLEY COUNTY AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF ORDWAY AND CROWLEY BY 430 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. AT 355 PM MDT THE STORM WAS 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY AND WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 ~MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS... TRAVELERS SHOULD USE CAUTION.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
COZ080-010020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 515 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PROWERS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 50 IN THE VICINITY OF HOLLY BY 545 PM MDT. AT 512 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF HOLLY MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. "7"
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 6:19 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
COZ080-010140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 619 PM MDT THU AUG 31 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PROWERS COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH PROWERS COUNTY...AFFECTING BRISTOL AND GRANADA THROUGH 645 PM...AND OPEN COUNTRY SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. AT 615 PM MDT THE STORMS WERE LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF GRANADA...AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRANADA...MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 34 min |
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.