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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 23, 1995Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 12:04 AM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 1995, 12:04 AM MDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1995, 12:29 AM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Bent County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 230605
SVRPUB
COC011-061-230700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1204 AM MDT TUE MAY 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE
ACROSS OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 IN NORTHEAST BENT COUNTY
AND WILL CROSS INTO SOUTHCENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY OVER HIGHWAY 287 BY 1215
AM MDT.
 
AT 1205 AM MDT...THE SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTH OF EADS
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 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 FLOBODS 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, 4 hours 36 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, 4 hours 21 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

Special weather statement, May 22, 9:46 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

COZ078-230445-

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

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY IN WESTERN KIOWA
COUNTY.  THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PASS IN THE
VICINITY OF ARLINGTON BY 950 PM MDT AND IN THE VICINITY OF HASWELL BY
1030 PM MDT.  AT 945 PM MDT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 4 MILES
SOUTH AND 4 MILES EAST OF ARLINGTON.  THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

"7"

Local storm report, May 22, 11:30 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
1130 PM MDT MON MAY 22 1995

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

914 PM     ROCKY FORD                CO   .75 TO .88 INCH HAIL WAS BRIEF
5/22/95    OTERO

1104 PM    10 E AND 5 N OF EADS      CO   .75 TO 1.75 INCH AND SLIGHTLY
5/22/95    KIOWA                           LARGER HAIL COVERED GROUND

1110 PM    9 N BRANDON               CO   .88 TO 1.00 INCH HAIL
5/22/95    KIOWA

SC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 9:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	35 min
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, 12:56 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	20 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.