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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 7, 1995Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 2:03 AM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 2:03 AM MDT (08:03 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 2:30 AM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 070804
SVRPUB
COC009-070830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
203 AM MDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...EASTERN BACA COUNTY
 
AT 205 AM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME
EASTERN BACA COUNTY 10 MILES NE OF TWO BUTTES MOVING NE AT 40 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 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 7, 1:27 AM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ079>081-070830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
126 AM MDT SUN MAY 7 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 120 AM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO FROM NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA.
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH.

WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 7, 1:36 AM MDT, 27 minutes before
COZ079>081-070830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
126 AM MDT SUN MAY 7 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 120 AM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO FROM NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA.
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH.

WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO BACA...BENT
AND PROWERS COUNTIES.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALONG WITH YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
STATIONS FOR FURTHER U<PDATES.

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.