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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 26, 1995Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
45 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, 11.3 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 262314
SVRPUB
COC061-099-270000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
515 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS THE EASTERN HALF OF KIOWA AND
PROWERS COUNTIES BY 600 PM...BRINGING DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH...HAIL
3/4 INCH OR LARGER...HEAVY RAINS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
 
AT 515 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM 15 MILES WEST OF TOWNER TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
 
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 HAS PASSED.
DO  NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 1:53 PM MDT, 3 hours 22 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, 3 hours 16 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, 2 hours 20 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, 2 hours 11 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 41 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...
Local storm report, May 26, 5:14 PM MDT, 1 minute before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
513 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995

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

405 PM     COLORADO SPRINGS          CO   1.00 INCH HAIL NEAR CITADEL
5/26/95    EL PASO                        MALL

408 PM     COLORADO SPRINGS          CO   1.00 INCH HAIL NORTH OF CITADEL
5/26/95    EL PASO                        MALL

410 PM     COLORADO SPRINGS          CO   1.50 INCH HAIL PALMER PARK AND
5/26/95    EL PASO                        CHELTON

415 PM     3 NE COLORADO SPRINGS     CO   .75 INCH HAIL
5/26/95    EL PASO

425 PM     NE COLORADO SPRINGS       CO   .75 INCH HAIL COVERED GROUND
5/2"6/95    EL PASO

BT/KT

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, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers60 min
May 26, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca46 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.