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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 1995Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 5:50 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1995, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 230000
SVRPUB
COC009-230030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
550 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...WESTERN BACA COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY ALONG HIGHWAY 160 IN
WESTERN BACA COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM...BRINGING 3/4 INCH HAIL OR LARGER
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
 
AT 559 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE STORM ALONG HIGHWAY
160 ABOUT TO ENTER WESTERN BACA COUNTY...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.
 
THIS SEVERE STORM HAS BROUGHT 3/4 INCH TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR KIM
IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BETWEEN 510 PM AND 540 PM MDT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH PREPARE FOR
STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...
GO TO AN INDOOR SHELTER...PREFERABLY A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

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, 5 hours 40 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

TLM

Local storm report, May 22, 12:13 PM MDT, 5 hours 37 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

TLM

Special weather statement, May 22, 2:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 55 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, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	47 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

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.