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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 26, 1995Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 4:15 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 262215
SVRPUB
COC061-099-262315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
415 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...PROWERS COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS
PROWERS COUNTY AND EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM. THE STORMS WILL
MOVE ACROSS WILEY AND LAMAR BY 430 PM. AT 413 PM...DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTH CENTRAL
KIOWA COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 287 TO NEAR PROWERS IN EASTERN BENT COUNTY.
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.
DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAXS PASSED.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 2:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers32 min
May 26, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero65 min
May 26, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Kiowa49 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers43 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBOtero28 min
May 26, 2:50 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers25 min
May 26, 3:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBOtero31 min
May 26, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers60 min
May 26, 3:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent37 min
May 26, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent30 min
May 26, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca46 min
May 26, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers45 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.