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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 5, 1995Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 9:09 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 9:09 PM MDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 293 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 060312
SVRPUB
COC071-060345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
909 PM MDT FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...SOUTH CENTRAL LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY
 
AT 910 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR THE RATON PASS AREA.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 40 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
ETO DIME SIZE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING.
DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas59 min

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.