Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 3:14 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 3:14 PM MDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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 122 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
- 1403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 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 262113 TORPUB COC089-262200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 314 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EAST CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST NORTHEAST 25 MPH UNTIL 400 PM MDT AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MILES OF LA JUNTA BETWEEN 330 PM AND 345 PM MDT. AT 312 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO GO IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORK0BENCH 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. GRAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 32 min |
| May 26, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 65 min |
| May 26, 2:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 26, 2:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 43 min |
| May 26, 2:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Otero | 28 min |
| May 26, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 25 min |
| May 26, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 60 min |
| May 26, 3:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 37 min |
| May 26, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 60 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 45 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.