Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 9:49 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 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 30, 1996, 9:49 PM MDT (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 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 03:52 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, 3.8 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
- 930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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
Local storm report, May 30, 4:37 PM MDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
428 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996
...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FOR MAY 30...
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
425 PM 1N ELBA CO 1/2 MILE WIDE TORNADO
05/30/96 WASHINGTON
BARJENBRUCHSpecial weather statement, May 30, 8:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
COZ038>050-300300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 815 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST PLAINS OF COLORADO UNTIL 900 PM MDT... ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT WEST OF A LINE FROM BRIGGSDALE TO STRASBURG TO KIOWA... AT 810 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE FROM SOUTH OF AKRON EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO EASTERN ELBERT COUNTY NEAR AGATE. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE URBAN CORRIDOR HAS ENDED THUS THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM MDT. KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| May 30, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 64 min |
| May 30, 6:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 45 min |
| May 30, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 30, 7:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 29 min |
| May 30, 7:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 30, 7:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 38 min |
| May 30, 7:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 38 min |
| May 30, 8:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 30, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 68 min |
| May 30, 8:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 40 min |
| May 30, 9:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 48 min |
| May 30, 9:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 36 min |
| May 31, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 31, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 66 min |
| May 31, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 60 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.