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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 1995Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 10:25 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1995, 10:25 PM MDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1995, 11:30 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-23Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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 230427
SVRPUB
COC061-230530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1025 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...KIOWA COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 287 SOUTH OF EADS BY 1035
PM MDT.  AT 1025 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF EADS.  THIS SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING TO THEAST NORTHEAST AT 30 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.
 
"7"

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, Otero35 min
May 23, 12:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa56 min
May 23, 12:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent25 min
May 23, 12:56 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa20 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.