Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1995, 5:14 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1995, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1995, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 212320 COR SVRPUB COC101-220015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED LOCATION... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 514 PM MDT SUN MAY 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...PUEBLO COUNTY A DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS I-25 AT 515 PM AND THEN ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF I-25 THROUGH 545 PM. THE STORM MAY CROSS HIGHWAY 50 EAST OF PUEBLO AROUND 600 PM. AT 513 PM THE STORM WAS 12 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO. 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 UNDERPASSES OR ,FAST MOVING WATER ON ROADS.
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 21, 3:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
COZ067-071-212325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 324 PM MDT SUN MAY 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION.... AT 330 PM LIMON RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTY. THE COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT SURFACE MOISTURE AND A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY PUSHING EAST FROM THE FRONT RANGE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STORMS. DRYER AIR ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD PUSH IN FROM THE WEST LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT TO BRING IMPROVING CONDITIONS FOR TONIGHT AND MONDAY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOPE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE BUT STILL MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDfS, AND SMALL HAIL. ...LOMBARDI...
Special weather statement, May 21, 4:19 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ075-077-212315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 418 PM MDT SUN MAY 21 1995 A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH THROUGH 500 PM ACROSS OPEN COUNTR0Y OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY EAST OF HIGHWAY 350 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160. AT 415 PM...THE STORM WAS 10 MILES EAST OF MODEL. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. RUBIN
Special weather statement, May 21, 4:53 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COZ073-220000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 452 PM MDT SUN MAY 21 1995 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN BEULAH... RYE AND COLORADO CITY AND ALONG HIGHWAYS 78...165 AND I-25 SOUTH OF PUEBLO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO CITY AT 452 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 20, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 52 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.