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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 20, 1995Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1995, 2:38 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 20, 1995, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 1995, 3:32 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 202040
SVRPUB
COC101-202145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
238 PM MDT SAT MAY 20 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY CROSSING
I25 NORTH OF PUEBLO BY 300 PM MDT.  AT 238 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED THAT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO
MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.V..DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAIN FLOODS ROADS QUICKLY SO
DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED UNDERPASSES OR FAST MOVING WATER ON ROADS.
 
"7"

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 3:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano25 min
May 20, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo28 min
May 20, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano59 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.