Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1995, 6:15 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 1995, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 210016 SVRPUB COC025-210100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 615 PM MDT SAT MAY 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR WILL MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY AND WILL MOVE ACROSS OLNEY SPRINGS AROUND 620 PM AND CROWLEY AROUND 645 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, May 20, 4:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
COZ074-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 400 PM MDT SAT MAY 20 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN HUERFANO HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED SOUTH OF WALSENBURG HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY. AT 350 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALSENBURG. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. "7"
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 20 min |
| May 20, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 52 min |
| May 21, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 61 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.