Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1996, 6:23 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 15, 1996, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1996, 7:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 160023
SVRPUB
COC025-160125-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
623 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 725 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
ORDWAY BY 630 PM MDT
* AT 623 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES WEST OF ORDWAY
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
JKWhat 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 15, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
COZ073-152315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 424 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN PUEBLO AND EASTERN FREMONT COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE PENROSE AREA AND ALONG HIGHWAY 50 IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO MOVE THROUGH PUEBLO WEST..THE CITY OF PUEBLO AND ALONG HIGHWAY 96 THROUGH 500 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEATVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
COZ074-152345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 443 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN HUERFANO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR WALSENBURG THROUGH 450 PM AND THEN MOVE INTO MAINLY OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF I-25 THROUGH 530 PM MDT. AT 441 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF WALSENBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. "7"
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
COZ071-160010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 509 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SOUTH OF TRUCKTON IN SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 545 PM MDT. AT 507 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 55 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:25 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
COZ076-160025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 522 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN OTERO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE IN THE VICINITY OF LA JUNTA THROUGH 545 PM MDT. AT 522 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. JK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:18 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
COZ079-160120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 618 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WESTERN BENT AND SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 96 AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF CROWLEY...ORDWAY AND SUGAR CITY IN SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 700 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 50 IN WESTERN BENT COUNTY THROUGH 700 PM. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. JK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:20 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
COZ076-079-160120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 618 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WESTERN BENT AND SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 96 AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF CROWLEY...ORDWAY AND SUGAR CITY IN SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 700 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 50 IN WESTERN BENT COUNTY THROUGH 700 PM. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. JK
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.