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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 2:30 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 3:15 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 20:29 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 2:40 PM MDTHail 2Campo, 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, 8.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 405 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 312029
SVRPUB
COC009-312115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
230 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    3 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD BY 235 PM
    CAMPO BY 235 PM
    VILAS BY 245 PM

* AT 227 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD
  AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST 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.

THIS WARNING REPLACES PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED AT 220 PM AND IS EFFECT
bFOR ALL OF BACA COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM.

MM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 min
May 31, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa62 min
May 31, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa25 min
May 31, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa31 min
May 31, 5:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers33 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.