Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 5:31 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1996, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 6:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Falcon, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 092332 SVRPUB COC041-100005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 531 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO CO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR RAMAH BY 535 PM MDT...BRINGING 3/4 INCH DIAMETER OR LARGER HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH. AT 530 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE STORM 2 MILES WEST OF RAMAH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.
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, May 9, 11:58 AM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
COZ060>081-100600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1155 AM MDT THU MAY 9 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER A SHALLOW LAYER OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. ENOUGH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN OVER KIOWA...BENT...LAS ANIMAS...AND PROWERS COUNTY TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...LOCAL DOWNPOURS...AND LIGHTNING. AT THIS TIME...THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. OVER THE MOUNTAINS WIDELY SCATTE~RED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL NOT APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. WOLYN
Special weather statement, May 9, 5:17 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
COZ071-072-100120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 516 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF PEYTON AT 510 PM...WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF CALHAN BY 520 PM AND WILL APPROACH RAMAH BY 540 PM. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCnCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.