Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1996, 4:47 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 31, 1996, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1996, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 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 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 31, 11:12 AM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
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COZ046-047-312130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 318 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...LARGE HAIL IN HUGO... AT 315PM HAIL TO JUST UNDER GOLFBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HUGO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT IN EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY INCLUDING HUGO UNTIL 330 PM. THE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF HUGO AND SLOWLY DRIFTING SOUTH. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD TAKE COVER FROM THIS STORM. RTG &&
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 44 min |
| Jul 30, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 47 min |
| Jul 30, 9:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 48 min |
| Jul 30, 9:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 49 min |
| Jul 30, 10:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 45 min |
| Jul 30, 10:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 55 min |
| Jul 30, 10:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 40 min |
| Jul 30, 10:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Washington | 31 min |
| Jul 30, 11:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan | 55 min |
| Jul 30, 11:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 30, 11:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 31 min |
| Jul 31, 12:40 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 110 min |
| Jul 31, 12:55 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Adams | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 12:55 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 1:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.