Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 032102 RRA SVRPUB COC011-032145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 300 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...BENT COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF LAS ANIMAS THROUGH 345 PM MDT. AT 300 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF LAS ANIMAS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LARSON/7
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, 2 hours 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
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 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, 2:24 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ068-070-073-032125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 224 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH ALONG HIGHWAY 67 BETWEEN WETMORE AND FLORENCE BY 300 PM MDT. AT 220 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 4 MILES WEST OF WETMORE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:25 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
COZ068-070-073-032125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 224 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH ALONG HIGHWAY 67 BETWEEN WETMORE AND FLORENCE BY 300 PM MDT. AT 220 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 4 MILES WEST OF WETMORE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUST>Y WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LARSON
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, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 59 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
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.