Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 4:44 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 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 262246 COR SVRPUB COC009-262330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION TO WORDING... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 444 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...BACA COUNTY ...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS BACA COUNTY FROM TWO BUTTES IN THE NORTH...ACROSS SPRINGFIELD TO PRITCHETT BETWEEN 445 PM MDT AND 530 PM MDT AT 440 PM SEVERE STORMS WERE OVER PRITCHETT AND WERE MOVING EAST 20 MPH. FURTHER GROWTH OF THE STORMS IS EXPECTED IN THIS LINE OF STORMS. 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
Special weather statement, May 26, 1:02 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 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, 2 hours 51 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, 2 hours 45 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
Special weather statement, May 26, 2:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
COZ073-262130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 255 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING JUST SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO... A THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST THROUGH THE CITY OF PUEBLO BY 315 PM. AT 254 PM A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE GOING TO BE NOTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE CITY OF PUEBLO. SC
Special weather statement, May 26, 3:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
COZ067-071-262305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 302 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOPE OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF EL PASO COUNTY UNTILL 9 PM MDT 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, 3:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
COZ071-262335-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
333 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995
....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT....
AT 330 PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF
COLORADO SPRINGS.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN THE
VICINITY OF SECURITY AND FOUNTAIN AROUND 400 PM MDT.
SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS
LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO.
PERSONS IN EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS ANDD POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
...LOMBARDI...The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 32 min |
| 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.