Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 1:39 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 1:39 PM MDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 041941 RRA SVRPUB COC071-042045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 139 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO CROSS HIGHWAY 109 12 MILES NORTH OF KIM BY 150 PM MDT. AT 140 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY MOVING TO THE 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 4, 1:16 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
COZ071-042005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 116 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS OF PEA AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL NEAR I-25 IN MONUMENT AND AT THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY WERE RELAYED TO THE WEATHER SERVICE BY TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. & NJL
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:18 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COZ071-042005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 116 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS OF PEA AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL NEAR I-25 IN MONUMENT AND AT THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY WERE RELAYED TO THE WEATHER SERVICE BY TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE AREA. STRONG GUSTY W@INDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. & NJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 2:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 57 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.