Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 9:30 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 9:30 PM MDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 030331 RRA SVRPUB COC041-030430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 930 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...EL PASO COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO FORM OVER THE WIDEFIELD...SECURITY AREA AT 925 PM MDT. AT 925 PM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 SOUTHEAST OF SECURITY TO EXTREME NORTHEAST EL PASOCOUNTY AT RAMAH. EVEN THOUGH THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH...REPEATED STORMS SHOULD BE EXPECTED IN THIS AREA. LARGE HAIL...GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG WINDS OVER 60 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL SHOULD BE EXPECTED. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER| SITUATION. GRAY
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, Jun 2, 3:56 PM MDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
COZ067-071-022245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 356 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 1995 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA THROUGH 500 PM MDT...BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 355 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND IN SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. TLM
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:58 PM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
COZ067-071-022245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 356 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 1995 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA THROUGH 500 PM MDT...BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 355 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND IN SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLA&CE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. TLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 9:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 4:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 54 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.