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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 1995Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 9:10 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1995, 9:10 PM MDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1995, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 230311
SVRPUB
COC025-089-230345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
910 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY...NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY...AND HAD
ALREADY PRODUCED MARBLE SIZED HAIL COVERING THE GROUND IN ROCKY FORD.
 
AT 910 PM THIS STORM WAS OVER ROCKY FORD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
PERSONS IN ROCKY FORD SHOULD MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER NOW.
 
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 22, 7:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

COZ079-230215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
727 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL BENT COUNTY...

PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM AT 724 PM...5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LAS ANIMAS...WHICH WILL MOVE OVER THE JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR
BY 740 PM...AND NEAR HASTY BY 750 PM.  THIS STRONG STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

IF YOU ARE ON OR NEAR THE JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR...EXPECT B$RIEF HEAVY
RAIN...WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL.

FISHERPERSONS AND BOATERS SHOULD GO TO SHORE FOR SAFETYS SAKE UNTIL THE
STRONG STORM PASSES.

TLM

Local storm report, May 22, 7:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
743 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995

TIME(MDT)  ...CITY LOCATION...     STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ..COUNTY LOCATION..

455 PM     30 S LAMAR                CO   .75 INCH HAIL BY STATE HIGHWAY
5/22/95    PROWERS                                                WORKER

512 PM     THATCHER                  CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/22/95    LAS ANIMAS

530 PM     KIM                       CO   .75 INCH HAIL
5/22/95    LAS ANIMAS

532 PM     HWY 160 NEAR KIM          CO   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/22/95    LAS ANIMAS

537 PM     KIM                       CO   .75 TO .88 INCH HAIL
5/22/95    LAS ANIMAS
SC/TLM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 10:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	65 min
May 23, 12:04 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	56 min
May 23, 12:04 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	25 min
May 23, 12:56 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1995 Every 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.