Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 3:02 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 3:02 PM MDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 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, 9.0 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 042104 RRA SVRPUB COC041-042200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 302 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...EL PASO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 94 NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS CROSSING THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 94 AND 24 BY 305 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL THEN CONTINUE ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 94 THROUGH 345 PM MDT. AT 300 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO BE 8 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADDO SPRINGS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY AW AY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 1 hour 46 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, 1 hour 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 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, 2:00 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, 3:33 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.