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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 1995Bent County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Carson/Butt, 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 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 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa40 min
May 15, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa62 min
May 15, 4:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa34 min
May 15, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers69 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.