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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 4, 1995El Paso County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 126 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 6:17 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBOtero3 hr
Jun 3, 7:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBBent, Prowers3 hr
Jun 3, 8:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBKiowa3 hr
Jun 4, 1:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas66 min
Jun 4, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
Jun 4, 2:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jun 4, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca57 min
Jun 4, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso44 min
Jun 4, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca57 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.