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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 17, 1996Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1996, 5:25 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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 17, 1996, 5:25 PM MDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1996, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 17, 4:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
424 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996

ADDITIONS TO JULY 13 1996 REPORTS

TIME(MDT)  ...CITY LOCATION...     STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ..COUNTY LOCATION..

304 PM     CALHAN                    CO   .75 INCH HAIL
7/13/96    EL PASO

330 PM     RAMAH                     CO   .75 INCH HAIL
7/13/96    EL PASO

940 PM     3 NE HOLLY                CO   .88 INCH HAIL
713/96     PROWERS

LTLM

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:36 PM MDT, 49 minutes before

COZ068-073-172340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
436 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHCENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND
EAST OF HIGHWAY 69 THROUGH 535 PM MDT BRINGING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS.

AT 435 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF THE ROYAL GORGE...AnND 9 MILES SOUTH OF THE ROYAL GORGE.
THESE STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD AT 15 MPH.

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:41 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

COZ072-172345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
440 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CROxSS INTERSTATE 25 NEAR MONUMENT THROUGH
455 PM MDT BRINGING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

AT 440 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG STORM NEAR
MONUMENT MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

KT

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:08 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

COZ074-075-180010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
507 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING WEST OF AGUILAR IN LAS
ANIMAS COUNTY...

A STRONG STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 25 IN THE VICINITY OF
AGUILAR AND LUDLOW BY 520 PM MDT BRINGING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY
WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

AT 505 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG STORM ABOUT 4
MILES SOUTHWEST OF AGUILAR MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE DRIVING ON I-25 IN BETWEEN AGUILAR AND LUDLOW SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

KT

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:13 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

COZ077-180015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
512 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH KIM AND ACROSS HIGHWAY 109
THROUGH 530 PM AND WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 160 THROUGH 610 PM MDT
BRINGING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME
SMALL HAIL.

AT 510 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM
EXTENDING FROM OVER KIM TO 6 MILES WEST OF KIM MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 10
MPH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.