Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 5:05 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 152309 SVRPUB COC061-160000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 505 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 LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST NORTH EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS NEARING BRANDON... AND IT PRODUCED QUARTER SIZED HAIL ON HIGHWAY 287 NORTH OF WILEY. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE TOWNS OF CHIVINGTON...BRANDON...TOWNER...AND SHERIDAN LAKE SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FOR SEVERE WEATHER. 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.
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 32 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, 1 hour 1 minute 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
Local storm report, May 15, 4:57 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 454 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 420 vMDT KIOWA/S OF SHERIDAN LAKE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED GROUND. 2220Z 445 MDT KIOWA/SE PRTN OF COUNTY TORNADO. 2245Z
Local storm report, May 15, 5:05 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO 504 PM MDT MON MAY 15 1995 TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 500 MDT PROWERS/3 NW WILEY 1 INCH HAIL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 40 min |
| May 15, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 15, 4:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 34 min |
| May 15, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 69 min |
| May 15, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 32 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.