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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 14, 1996Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 2:34 AM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 14, 1996, 2:34 AM MDT (08:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1996, 3:35 AM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 293 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.1

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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 13, 8:56 PM MDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

COZ080-140400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
857 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 50 IN NORTHERN
PROWERS COUNTY BY 910 PM MDT.  AT 855 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES NORTH OF HOLLY AND 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LAMAR.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT ,20 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2
INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

JK

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 9:07 PM MDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

COZ071-072-140410-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
905 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 4AM MDT SUNDAY MORNING...

...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER EL PASO COUNTY...

A THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY EAST
OF INTERSTATE 25 THROUGH 945 PM MDT.  AT 905 PM MDT PUEBLO
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF
DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS.  THIS RSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/4 INCH
DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 45 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY
RAINFALL.

JK

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:56 PM MDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

COZ071>073-076-078-140600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1055 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM MDT SUNDAY...

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING EL PASO COUNTY FROM THE NORTH...

A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN
EL PASO COUNTY BY 1145 PM MDT AND THEN MOVE INTO THE PUEBLO COUNTY BY
1245 AM MDT.  AT 1055 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING ARAPAHOE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE
1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 55 MPH AND VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

JK

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 11:41 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

COZ071>073-140645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1142 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM MDT SUNDAY...

...STRONG WINDS APPROACHING EL PASO COUNTY...

STRONG WINDS ARE ENTERING EXTREME NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY WITH WIND
GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE.  THESE HIGH WINDS SHOULD BE AFFECTING THE
COLORADO SPRINGS AREA BY MIDNIGHT AND THEN PUSH INTO PUEBLO COUNTY BY
100 AM MDT.

STRONG WINDS CAN CAUSE POWER DISRUPTIONS...HAZARDS TO MOBILE
HOMES...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AND VEHICLES PULLING TRAILERS.
BLOWING DUST CAN ALSO BE HAZARDOUS TO MOTORISTS...QUICKLY
REDUCING THE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO ON ROADWAYS NEAR OPEN OR
PLOWED FIELDS.

JK

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:03 AM MDT, 31 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	64 min
Jul 13, 8:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
Jul 13, 9:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	65 min
Jul 14, 12:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	64 min
Jul 14, 12:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	59 min
Jul 14, 12:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	60 min
Jul 14, 1:17 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	63 min
Jul 14, 1:33 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	62 min
Jul 14, 1:42 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	63 min
Jul 14, 2:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.