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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 14, 1996Costilla County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 9:21 PM MDT for Costilla County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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, 9:21 PM MDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1996, 10:10 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Costilla County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 269 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 478 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 150321
SVRPUB
COC023-150410-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
921 PM MDT SUN JUL 14 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN COSTILLA COUNTY      IN SOUTH COLORADO

* UNTIL 1010 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ALONG HIGHWAY 159 NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF SAN ACACIO AND SAN LUIS
    THROUGH 1000 PM MDT

* AT 920 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAN
 . LUIS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

JK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBSaguache63 min
Jul 14, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBAlamosa62 min
Jul 14, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCostilla60 min
Jul 15, 2:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBSaguache49 min
Jul 15, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every 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.