Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 3:58 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1995, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1995, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 222158 SVRPUB COC071-222245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 358 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN LAS-ANIMAS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER THE TOWNS OF AGUILAR AND LUDLOW ...INCLUDING INTERSTATE 25 BY 415 PM...BRINGING HAIL 3/4 INCHES OR LARGER AND WINDS GUSTING TO OVER 60 MPH. AT 355 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AGUILAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCUR RING...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. WOLYN
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
Local storm report, May 22, 12:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR FORMAT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
1209 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
423 PM 4 W OF COLORADO CITY CO .75 INCH HAIL BY TRAINED SPOTTER
5/20/95 PUEBLO
443 PM 13 NNE OF WALSENBURG CO 1 TO 1 1/8 INCH HAIL BY AMATEUR
5/20/95 HUERFANO RADIO OPERATOR
500 PM 16 NE OF WALSENBURG CO 1 INCH HAIL FROM 500 TO 520 PM
5/20/95 HUERFANO
600 PM 5 SE BOONE CO .75 INCH HAIL FROM 600 TO 620 PM
5/20/95 PUEBLO
630 PM ORDWAY TO 5 E ORDWAY CO .88 INCH HAIL
5/20/95 CROWLEY
815 PM 1 W MODEL CO .75 INCH HAIL
5/20/95 LAS ANIMAS
TLMLocal storm report, May 22, 12:13 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR FORMAT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1213 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
603 PM 8 ESE PUEBLO (AVONDALE) CO .75 INCH HAIL BY AMATEUR RADIO
5/21/95 PUEBLO OPERATOR
TLMSpecial weather statement, May 22, 2:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
COZ081-222155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 254 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY PASSING THROUGH OPEN FARM AND RANCH LAND WEST OF CAMPO. THE STRONGEST PART OF THE STORM WILL REACH CAMPO AND HIGHWAY 287/385 IN SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY BY 330 PM. PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE CENTER OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM 220 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMPO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 68 min |
| May 21, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 42 min |
| May 21, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 22, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| May 22, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 61 min |
| May 22, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 22, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 22, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 40 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.