Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 1:31 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 1:31 PM MDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huerfano County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 031933 RRA SVRPUB COC055-032030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 131 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND AFFECT THE WALSENBURG AREA BY 220 PM. THIS STORM WILL BRING LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. AT 130 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF LA VETA...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALSENBURG. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTHEAST AT r10 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. GTR/JK
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 3, 12:55 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ076-078>080-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1255 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN EASTERN CROWLEY...EASTERN OTERO AND WESTERN BENT COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM. AT 150 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORMS 20 MILES NORTHWEST AND 15 MILES SOUTH OF LAS ANIMAS IN BENT COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LARSON/7
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:56 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
COZ076-078>080-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1255 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN EASTERN CROWLEY...EASTERN OTERO AND WESTERN BENT COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM. AT 150 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORMS 20 MILES NORTHWEST AND 15 MILES SOUTH OF LAS ANIMAS IN BENT COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LARSON/7
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, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 9:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 5 hr |
| 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.