Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 2:27 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 2:27 AM MDT (08:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 581 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KPUB 080827 RRA SVRPUB COC061-080900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 227 AM MDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE OVER TOWNER AND THE OPEN COUNTRY OF EXTREME EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY BETWEEN 225 AND 300 AM MDT. AT 225 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY EXTENDING FROM NEAR HIGHWAY 50 SOUTH TO NEAR THE PROWERS COUNTY BORDER. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 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 7, 11:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
COZ072-080630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1153 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL TO A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER WERE LOCATED ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF EL PASO COUNTY. AT 1145 PM THE STRONGEST PART OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALHAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PASS FROM RAMAH TO 5 MILES EAST OF RAMAH BY 1215 AM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO A BYPRODUCT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SC
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
COZ072-080630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1153 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL TO A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER WERE LOCATED ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF EL PASO COUNTY. AT 1145 PM THE STRONGEST PART OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALHAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PASS FROM RAMAH TO 5 MILES EAST OF RAMAH BY 1215 AM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO A BYPRODUCT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 68 min |
| Jun 7, 8:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 8:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 9:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 67 min |
| Jun 7, 10:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 11:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 3:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 52 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.