Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1996, 6:17 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1996, 7:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 00:18 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 180017
SVRPUB
COC061-180120-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
617 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 720 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
HIGHWAY 96 WEST OF EADS THROUGH 700 PM MDT
* AT 615 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES WEST OF EADS BUILDING
TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH.
REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
KTWhat 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
Local storm report, Jul 17, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes 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
LTLMSpecial weather statement, Jul 17, 4:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 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, 1 hour 36 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, 1 hour 9 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, 1 hour 4 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:53 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
COZ071-072-180055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 552 PM MDT WED JUL 17 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN CASCADE AND MANITOU SPRINGS THROUGH 600 PM AND MOVE INTO MANITOU SPRINGS BY 600 PM. THIS STORM MAY ENTER WESTERN PORTIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS BY 615 PM. THIS STORM WILL BRING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND PO\SSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. AT 550 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG STORM OVER CASCADE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD 15 MPH. KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.