Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 2:20 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1996, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1996, 3:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Campo, CO | |
| May 31, 2:40 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Campo, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 312019
SVRPUB
COC009-312105-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
220 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 305 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CAMPO BY 230 PM
OVER OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF 287 THROUGH 3 PM
* AT 218 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMPO
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
$
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
MMWhat 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, May 31, 12:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
COZ060>081-010600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1245 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER ...NO SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY... PIKES PEAK REGION WILL SEE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FAIRLY LOW. SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS ARE COOLER THAN YESTERDAY AND WITHOUT UPPER LEVEL JET SEVERE CONVECTION IS DOUBTFUL. WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL BE THE PRIMARY INSTIGATOR OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY BRING GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST ONTO THE PLAINS. FARTHER EAST...HIGH DEWPOINTS FROM LA JUNTA TO KANSAS BORDER WILL PROVIDE MOISTURE SUPPORT AND ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP TO SEVERE LEVELS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS BUT SHOULD BE LESS THAN 50 MPH. LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY BE THE MOST COMMON THREAT INTO THE EVENING HOURS. TO RECAP...GREATEST THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER PIKES PEAK REGION AND OVER COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE COLORADO/KANSAS BORDER. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EXTREME EASTERWN COUNTIES INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON EXCEPT OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
COZ060>081-010600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1245 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER PIKES PEAK REGION WILL SEE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FAIRLY LOW. SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS ARE COOLER THAN YESTERDAY AND WITHOUT UPPER LEVEL JET SEVERE CONVECTION IS DOUBTFUL. WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL BE THE PRIMARY INSTIGATOR OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY BRING GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST ONTO THE PLAINS. FARTHER EAST...HIGH DEWPOINTS FROM LA JUNTA TO KANSAS BORDER WILL PROVIDE MOISTURE SUPPORT AND ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP TO SEVERE LEVELS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS BUT SHOULD BE LESS THAN 50 MPH. LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY BE THE MOST COMMON THREAT INTO THE EVENING HOURS. TO RECAP...GREATEST THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER PIKES PEAK REGION AND OVER COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE COLORADO/KANSAS BORDER. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EXTREME EASTERN COUNTIES INTO THE EVENING HOURS.j SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON EXCEPT OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:48 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
COZ081-312040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 148 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY... A STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER CAMPO BY 215 PM MDT AND TO NEAR STONINGTON BY 230 PM MDT. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL LESS THAN 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. AT 145 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM LOCATED 12 MILErS SOUTHEAST OF CAMPO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| May 31, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 25 min |
| May 31, 5:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 31, 5:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.