Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1995, 4:33 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1995, 4:33 PM MDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1995, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 182234 RRA SVRPUB COC061-182300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 433 PM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 430 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM WAS OVER HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 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 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 18, 10:43 AM MDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
COZ016-060>081-190600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1043 AM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER SYNOPSIS: RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND AFTERNOON HEATING COULD COMBINE TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP SHOULD END DURING THE EARLY EVENING. THE CONVECTION THAT MIGHT FORM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. GTR
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:38 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ078-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 338 PM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY ACROSS HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS BY 400 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT AT 338 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF EADS WITH OTHER STRONG STORMS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ...CORRECTION FOR HIGHWAY NUMBER IN FIRST PARAGRAPH...
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:39 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ078-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 338 PM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY ACROSS HIGHWAY 26 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS BY 400 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT AT 338 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS LOCATED 15 MILESF WEST OF EADS WITH OTHER STRONG STORMS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:03 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
COZ078-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 338 PM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY ACROSS HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS BY 400 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT AT 338 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF EADS WITH OTHER STRONG STORMS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ...CORRECTION FOR HIGHWAY NUMBER IN FIRST PARAGRAPH...
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:17 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
COZ078-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 417 PM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS KIOWA COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS BETWEEN 415 AND 445 PM MDT. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. AT 415 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STRONG STORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:18 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
COZ078-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 417 PM MDT SUN JUN 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS KIOWA COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN HASWELL AND EADS BETWEEN 415 AND 445 PM MDT. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. AT 415 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS STRONG STORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Otero | 53 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.