Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 7:12 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1995, 7:12 PM MDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1995, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 KDEN 310115
SVRPUB
COC011-061-099-310200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
ISSUED BY NWS DENVER CO
712 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
NORTHEASTERN BENT...SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA AND NORTHWESTERN
PROWERS
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
LAMAR AND WILEY
AT 712 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF WILEY ...OR ABOUT 18
MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 26 MPH.
TO REPORT SEVERE WREATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
DULONG
LAT...LON 3807 10250 3806 10285 3842 10290 3842 10256What 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 30, 1:34 PM MDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 30, 1:37 PM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
COZ071-072-302015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 135 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 1995 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES UNTIL 400PM... THUNDERSTORMS WERE SLOWLY MOVING EASTWARD THROUGH EL PASO COUNTY WHICH INCLUDES COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 135 PM A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER FT CARSON AND THE TOWN OF FOUNTAIN...ALONG I-25. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SLOW MOVING...WITH T PRIMARY THREAT BEING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCING FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 5 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, May 30, 4:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
COZ062>064-302300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 400 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS ALAMOSA AT 400 PM AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST. THE STORM IS TRAVELING AT A SPEED OF AROUND 20 MPH. THIS STORM DROPPED 1/2 INCH HAIL WEST OF ALAMOSA AND HEAVY RAIN. KEEP IN MIND THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. MOVE INDOORS WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. DELOZIER
Special weather statement, May 30, 4:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
COZ062>064-302300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALAMOSA CO 435 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO IS INDICATING ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST RIO GRANDE COUNTY SOUTH OF THE MONTE VISTA WILDLIFE REFUGE. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST CONEJOS COUNTY BY 500 PM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COMMUNITIES OF LA JARA AND ROMEO. THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE BEEN PRODUCING RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INDOORS OR TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SUCH AS A REINFORCED BUILDING. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. DELOZIER
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
COZ073-302330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 500 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PUEBLO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 THROUGH 515 PM MDT. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY BY 515 PM MDT EFFECTING PUEBLO WEST...BUELAH...AND COLORADO CITY. AT 455 PM MDT ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AVONDALE. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO WEST. A THIRD WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO CITY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. > KT/GR
Local storm report, May 30, 5:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
537 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 1995
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
355 PM 2 S SPRINGFIELD CO .88 INCH TO 1 INCH HAIL
5/30/95 BACA
416 PM AVONDALE CO .75 INCH HAIL
5/30/95 PUEBLO
430 PM 9 N BRANDON CO .88 INCH HAIL
5/30/95 KIOWA
TLMNearby
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.