Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 4:10 PM MDT for El Paso 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 19, 1996, 4:10 PM MDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 19, 11:45 AM MDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
COZ060>081-200600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1142 AM MDT FRI JUL 19 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 AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO WHILE MOIST AIR AND THE HEATING OF THE DAY WILL SPARK ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EVENING OVER THE REST OF THE AREA. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME...BRINGING SOME HAIL A BIT LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS IN WIDELY SCATTERED AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE...ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BUT ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS MAY OCCUR. x SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ALERT IN CASE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WOULD BE WELCOMED. TLM
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
COZ071-192140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 236 PM MDT FRI JUL 19 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OFF THE MOUNTAINS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 115 AND FORT CARSON TO NEAR FOUNTAIN BY 330 PM MDT. ANOTHER DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING RAIN ALONG US 24 BETWEEN MANITOU SPRINGS AND DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM MDT. AT 234 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. THE OTHER STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 4:06 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 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.