Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 2:00 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 042002 RRA SVRPUB COC041-042100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 200 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS I-25 IN NORTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS BY 220 PM. THIS WILL BRING LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AT 200 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 6 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 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 D RIVE INTO FLOODED UNDERPASSES OR FAST MOVING WATER ON ROADS. GTR
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, 44 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, 42 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, 1:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 66 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.