Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 4:51 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 5:23 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 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 152252 SVRPUB COC011-099-160000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 451 PM MDT MON MAY 15 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 ...NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY...NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING FROM NORTHEAST BENT COUNTY INTO NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS 10 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF LAMAR AND WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER bSEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 1 hour 18 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
Local storm report, May 15, 4:04 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 404 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 354 MDT KIOWA/VCNTY OF BRANDON 3/4 INCH HAIL. 2154Z GTR/SR/PW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 40 min |
| May 15, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 15, 4:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 34 min |
| May 15, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 69 min |
| May 15, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 55 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.