Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 4:33 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 4:33 PM MDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 042235 RRA SVRPUB COC009-042330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 433 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHWEST BACA COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM MDT. AT 430 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD OR 20 MILES WEST OF CAMPO IN BACA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST OVER OPEN COUNTRY AT 5 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. LARSON
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, 3 hours 17 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, 3 hours 15 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
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
COZ081-042230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 324 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST BACA COUNTY THROUGH 420 PM MDT. AT 320 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELLS OVER WEST BACA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LARSON
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
COZ081-042230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 324 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN BACA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST BACA COUNTY THROUGH 420 PM MDT. AT 320 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN PUEBLO INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELLS OVER WEST BACA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV SdTATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LARSON
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, 3:02 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 |
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.