Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 7:00 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1996, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 100100
SVRDEN
COC073-100145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
700 PM MDT THU MAY 09 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
FORDER...KARVAL AND WILD HORSE POINT
AT 658 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF FORDER...OR ABOUT 44
MILES SOUTH OF LIMON.
THE STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AG
ENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL
1100PM MDT.
HOLZINGER
LAT...LON 3854 10340 3854 10401 3884 10399 3883 10337What 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, May 9, 6:31 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
COZ040-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 630 AM MDT THU MAY 09 1996 ...LOCAL FLOODING AND SMALL HAIL IN THE DENVER METRO AREA... HEAVY RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE DENVER METRO AREA IS CAUSING LOCAL FLOODING. SEVERAL REPORTS OF LOCAL STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF THE DENVER METRO AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 8PM...THEN GRADUALLY DECREASE. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU ARE DRIVING. SLOW DOWN TO REDUCE THE DANGER FROM WATER ON THE ROADWAYS. HOLZINGER
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:54 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
COZ046-047-100300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 655 PM MDT THU MAY 09 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN LINCOLN AND EASTERN ELBERT COUNTIES... AN AREA OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDS FROM SOUTHEASTERN ELBERT COUNTY... ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...TO EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...OR 30 EAST OF LIMON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND EVEN A TORNADO. A TORNADO WATCH IS CONTINUING UNTIL 11PM FOR THIS AREA. HOLZINGER
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.