Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 3:13 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 3:13 PM MDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 4:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 082114 TORPUB COC071-089-082215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 313 PM MDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY A DEVELOPING TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF HIGHWAY 350 CROSSING THE LAS ANIMAS-OTERO COUNTY LINE BY 340 PM MDT. AT 313 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO TO BE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THATCHER IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA IN OTERO COUNTY. THIS TORNADIC STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO GO TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. LARSON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 8, 12:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
COZ016-060>065-067>081-090600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1215 PM MDT THU JUN 8 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 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SYNOPSIS: SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AS A STRONG SHORTWAVE IS EXPECTED TO ROTATE THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY MORNING. MAIN PROBLEM INHIBITING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION ARE LOW CLOUDS AND COOL TEMPERATURES OVER THE MAJORITY OF COLORADO BEHIND COLD FRONT WHICH AT 1100 AM MDT WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF A WALSENBURG/SPRINGFIELD LINE. ISOLATED TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS IF THEY DO DEVELOP. WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ON ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. "7"
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
COZ016-060>065-067>081-090600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1215 PM MDT THU JUN 8 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 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SYNOPSIS: SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AS A STRONG SHORTWAVE IS EXPECTED TO ROTATE THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO FRIDAY MORNING. MAIN PROBLEM INHIBITING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION ARE LOW CLOUDS AND COOL TEMPERATURES OVER THE MAJORITY OF COLORADO BEHIND COLD FRONT WHICH AT 1100 AM MDT WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF A WALSENBURG/SPRINGFIELD LINE. ISOLATED TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS IF THEY DO DEVELOP. WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ON ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. "7"
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:36 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
COZ077-082140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 236 PM MDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 350 IN CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 330 PM MDT. AT 234 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS STRONG STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LARSON/7
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:37 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ077-082140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 236 PM MDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 350 IN CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 330 PM MDT. AT 234 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS STRONG STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LARSON/7
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, 2:27 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 33 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes 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.