Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1995, 7:53 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 1995, 7:53 PM MDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1995, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 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, 1.9 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.
- 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 210154 SVRPUB COC071-210245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 753 PM MDT SAT MAY 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF MODEL BY 810 PM MDT. AT 752 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MODEL. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...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 UNDERPASSHES OR FAST MOVING WATER ON ROADS. KALINA
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, 3 hours 52 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"
Special weather statement, May 20, 7:27 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
COZ074-075-077-210215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 727 PM MDT SAT MAY 20 1995 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR PRYOR AT 723 PM OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY...WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF I-25 IN EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO OPEN COUNTY OF NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BETWEEN I-25 AND HIGHWAY 350 BETWEEN 730 AND 745 PM. RUBIN
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, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 45 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.