Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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
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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.