Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 2:13 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Near Wiley, CO | Brief touchdown near Wiley, no damage. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 1403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 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 262013 SVRPUB COC099-262045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 213 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS OPEN AREAS OF NORTHWEST PROWERS COUNTY. AT 212 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR. 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. SC
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 26, 11:56 AM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
COZ067-071-262000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 1155 AM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOPE OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION.. THE COMBINATION OF A COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ALOFT, ABUNDANT SURFACE MOISTURE, SURFACE HEATING AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS IN TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTY AND THE COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. ..LOMBARDI...
Special weather statement, May 26, 12:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
COZ074-075-261900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1227 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS... THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS NEAR WALSENBURG. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. AT 1222 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALSENBURG...TO THE EAST OF I-25. AS THIS THUNDERSTORM TRACKS NORTHEAST BY 1245 PM IT WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST HUERFANO COUNTY. CUCHARA JUNCTION MAY BE AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM AS IT L|IFTS NORTHEAST. SC
Special weather statement, May 26, 1:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
COZ073-074-075-077-261945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 100 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS READY TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BY 145 PM... A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS APPROACHING SOUTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD AT 1255 PM AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE IN SOUTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BY 145 PM. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALSENBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 2O MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PASSING ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY... ENTERING SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY AND CROSSING HIGHWAY 10 BY 130 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS ALL REMAIN CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... HAIL TO MARBLE SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS. SC
Special weather statement, May 26, 1:53 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ073-076-262030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 153 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUST WINDS HAD JUST ENTERED EXTREME SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY AT 145 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CROSSING HIGHWAY 10 BY 2 PM...THEN EXIT THE REST OF SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY BY 215 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POISED TO ENTER NORTHWEST OTERO COUNTY BY 215 PM. AT 145 PM THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH. SC
Special weather statement, May 26, 1:59 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
COZ080-262045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 158 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA SIZED HAIL ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF LAMAR... THUNDERSTORMS NEAR LAMAR WILL BE PASSING NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 BY 2 PM...AND MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS OPEN AREAS OF PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 245 PM. AT 150 PM PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF LAMAR... AND THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 TO 3 MILES WEST OF LAMAR. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM REMAINS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS. SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 65 min |
| May 26, 2:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 26, 2:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 43 min |
| May 26, 2:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 28 min |
| May 26, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 25 min |
| May 26, 3:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 31 min |
| May 26, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 60 min |
| May 26, 3:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 37 min |
| May 26, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 60 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.