Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1996, 10:14 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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 20, 1996, 10:14 PM MDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1996, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 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 04:15 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, 4.2 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 210414
SVRPUB
COC041-210445-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1014 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
FOUNTAIN UNTIL 1025 PM
OPEN COUNTRY EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF FOUNTAIN THROUGH 1045 PM
* AT 1012 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 1 MILE EAST OF FOUNTAIN
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
SRWhat 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, 6:53 PM MDT, 3 hours 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, 3 hours 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
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 8:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
COZ067-210335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 830 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER TELLER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN TELLER COUNTY AFFECTING FLORISSANT THROUGH 845 PM...BRINGING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL LESS THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 829 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF FLORISSANT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 8:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-210355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 849 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TELLER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS DIVIDE THROUGH 905 PM AND CONTINUE TRACKING ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 24 EAST OF DIVIDE THROUGH 930 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 847 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM NEAR DIVIDE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SR
Local storm report, Jul 20, 9:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
905 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
245 PM WALSENBURG CO 0.75 INCH HAIL
7/20/96 HUERFANO
627 PM 17 SE SECURITY CO 1 INCH HAIL
7/20/96 EL PASO
630 PM 17 SE SECURITY CO 0.75 INCH HAIL
7/20/96 EL PASO
720 PM TRUCKTON CO 1 INCH HAIL
7/20/96 EL PASO
738 PM ELLICOTT CO 1.5 INCH HAIL
7/20/96 EL PASO
725 PM ELLICOTT CO 1.5 INCH HAIL
7/20/96 EL PASO
757 PM 3 W YODER CO 1 INCLH HAIL
7/20/96 EL PASO
KTSpecial weather statement, Jul 20, 9:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
COZ071-072-210415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 909 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 24 THROUGH 945 PM...BRINGING HAIL LESS THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. AT 907 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG STORM LOCATED 4X MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. KT
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, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 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, 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
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.