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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 1995Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 3:43 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 3:43 PM MDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-15Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 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 152145
SVRPUB
COC061-152245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
343 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTNUE TO MOVE OVER EASTERN KIOWA
COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL TWO MILES EAST OF
BANDON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN SHERIDAN LAKE...TOWNER...AND BRANDON SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
 
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

Local storm report, May 15, 3:33 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
331 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995

TIME (MDT)       COUNTY/LOCATION           EVENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------
331 LMDT          KIOWA/2 MI E OF BRANDON   3/4 TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL.
2131Z

GTR/SR/PW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa40 min
May 15, 4:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa34 min
May 15, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers69 min
May 15, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent32 min
May 15, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa55 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.