Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 2:01 PM MDT for Bent County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bent County, CO, Otero County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 032003 RRA SVRPUB COC011-089-032100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 201 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN BENT COUNTY...EASTERN OTERO COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN LA JUNTA AND LAS ANIMAS BY 230 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AT 200 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERST MEXTENDED FROM 5 MILES WEST OF LAS ANIMAS TO 15 SOUTH OF LA JUNTA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAIN FLOODS ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED UNDERPASSES OR FAST MOVING WATER ON ROADS.
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, 1 hour 6 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, 1 hour 5 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, 1:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 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.