Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1995, 2:32 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1995, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 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 012031 RRA TORPUB COC071-012100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 232 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 160 EAST OF TRINIDAD BY 300 PM. AT 220 PM...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 4 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO GO IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCLH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM... SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. TLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 12:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 1:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Alamosa | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 1:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| Jul 1, 1:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Rio Grande | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 1:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Costilla | 51 min |
| Jul 1, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 68 min |
| Jul 1, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 29 min |
| Jul 1, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 58 min |
| Jul 1, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 59 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.