Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1996, 7:14 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. 5 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
- Jul 20, 1996, 7:14 PM MDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1996, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 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 01:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:20 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Truckton, CO | |
| Jul 20, 7:25 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Ellicott, CO | |
| Jul 20, 7:40 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | (Cos)Peterson Field, CO | |
| Jul 20, 7:57 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Yoder, CO | |
| Jul 20, 8:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | (Cos)Peterson Field, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 20, 5:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
COZ076-077-210100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 528 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY APPROACHING SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY... VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTY OF NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BETWEEN HIGHWAYS 350 AND 109...AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY WEST OF HIGHWAY 109 BY 530 PM. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL APPROACH HIGHWAY 109 SOUTH OF LA JUNTA BY 630 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS APPROACHING THREE INCHES PER HOUR...HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 526 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE STORMS 24 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. KT/SR
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
COZ068-070-210040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 536 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN CUSTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN SILVER CLIFF AND GREENWOOD THROUGH 615 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 535 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 14 MILES WEST OF WETMORE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
COZ073-210055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 550 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 25 NORTH OF PUEBLO THROUGH 645 PM MDT BRINGING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. AT 550 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SR/KT
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:26 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
COZ079-210130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 627 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOTHERN BENT COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY...AFFECTING TOONERVILLE THROUGH 635 PM MDT...THEN MOVING OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND EAST OF TOONERVILLE. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SFOME SMALL HAIL. AT 625 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM OVER TOONERVILLE OR 18 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF LAS ANIMAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. KT/SR
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:53 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
COZ071-073-210145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 653 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY... A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER FORT CARSON IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY...THROUGH 720 PM MDT...PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. AT 653 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS DEVELOPING STORM 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. KT/SR
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:56 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
COZ071-073-210145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 653 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY... A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER FORT CARSON IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 720 PM MDT...PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. AT 653 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS DEVELOPING STORM 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. KT/SR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 9:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 31 min |
| Jul 20, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 50 min |
| Jul 21, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.