Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1995, 6:49 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1995, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1995, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 110050 RRA SVRPUB COC101-110145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 649 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...PUEBLO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT PUEBLO WEST AT 649 PM...WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ALONG HIGHWAY 50 AND BE NEAR PUEBLO AROUND 715 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL AROUND DIME SIZE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM IS 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, Sep 10, 5:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
COZ067-068-071>073-110040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 507 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY... THROUGH AT LEAST 6 PM...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN UP TO A HALF OF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL AFFECT MUCH OF EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY INCLUDING THE ROYAL GORGE...CANON CITY...FLORENCE AND PENROSE. HIGHWAYS 115 AND 50 BETWEEN THE ROYAL GORGE AND PENROSE WILL ALSO BE AFFE CTED. AT 505 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF CANON CITY...AND 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANON CITY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 5:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
COZ073-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 524 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO AT 523 PM ...WILL DRIFT EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT HIGHWAY 78 SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO AND WILL BE APPROACHING PUEBLO BY 6 PM AT ITS CURRENT SPEED. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH PER HOUR WHICH WILL PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON HIGHWAY 78 AS WELL AS TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WHICH WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. IF YOU ARE DRIVING ON HIGHWAY 78...PLEASE SLOW DOWN AS YOU APPROACH THE STORM.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 5:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
COZ062>064-110045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 538 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL AFFECT THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THROUGH AT LEAST 630 PM THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY...EASTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY AND ALAMOSA COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO A HALF OF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL AFFECT ALAMOSA THROUGH 615 PM. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. IF YOU ENCOUNTER HEAVY RAIN WHILE DRIVING...PLEASE SLOW DOWN OR PULL OVER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 5:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
COZ062>064-110045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 538 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL AFFECT THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THROUGH AT LEAST 630 PM THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY...EASTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY AND ALAMOSA COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO A HALF OF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL AFFECT ALAMOSA THROUGH 615 PM. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. IF YOU ENCOUNTER HEAVY RAIN WHILE DRIVING...PLEASE SLOW DOWN OR PULL OVER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 6:11 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
COZ068-073-110115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 611 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR PUEBLO WEST BETWEEN 630 AND 700 PM AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH PER HOUR...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING. AT 610 PM...THE THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO WEST... OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO. OTHER WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MUCH OF FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM...PRODUCING MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE DRIVING ALONG HIGHWAY 50 WEST OF PUEBLO...PLEASE SLOW DOWN OR PULL OVER AS YOU ENCOUNTER THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 6:44 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
COZ073-110145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 644 PM MDT SUN SEP 10 1995 A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AT PUEBLO WEST BETWEEN 645 PM AND 700 PM AND WILL BE APPROACHING PUEBLO AROUND 715 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AS WELL AS HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH ALONG HIGHWAY 50. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...AND BRING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM...YOU ARE URGED TO FIND SHELTER BEFORE IT REACHES YOUR AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 29 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.