Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1996, 5:34 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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 21, 1996, 5:34 PM MDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1996, 6:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 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 23:33 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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
- 2337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 21, 11:53 AM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
COZ060>081-220600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1155 AM MDT SUN JUL 21 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 THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY ARE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM WALSENBURG TO LA JUNTA. ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES OVER THIS REGION SUGGEST HIGH ENOUGH LEVELS OF MOISTURE AND CONVECTIVE ENERGY TO SUPPORT SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT MAY AID IN TRIGGERING SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT IN THESE AREAS LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL ALSO SEE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP LATER TODAY. HOWEVER...LESS AVAILABLE MOISTURE SHOULD RESULT IN FEWER AND LESS INTENSE STORMS. OVER THE SOUTHEASTERNMOST COUNTIES...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. ELSEWHERE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ISOLATED SfMALL HAIL...LOCAL HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. LW
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 3:34 PM MDT, 2 hours before
COZ074-075-212240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 335 PM MDT SUN JUL 21 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEAST HUERFANO COUNTY... THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS I-25 BETWEEN PRYOR AND AGUILAR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF WALSENBURG...BETWEEN 340 PM AND 4 PM MDT. HAIL OF 1/2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL OR SMALLER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. AT 335 PM MDT...THE STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTH OF WALSENBURG...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. MOTORISTS ON I-25 SHOULD ESPECIALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AS THIS STORM CROSSES THE INTERSTATE.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 3:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
COZ074-075-212240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 335 PM MDT SUN JUL 21 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEAST HUERFANO COUNTY... THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS I-25 BETWEEN PRYOR AND AGUILAR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF WALSENBURG...BETWEEN 340 PM AND 4 PM MDT. HAIL OF 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. AT 335 PM MDT...THE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTH OF WALSENBURG... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. MOTORISTS ON I-25 SHOULD ESPECIALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AS THIS STORM CROSSES THE INTERSTATE.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 4:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
COZ074-075-077-081-212305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 432 PM MDT SUN JUL 21 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN COLORADO... AT 430 PM MDT...THE STRONG STORMS IN COLORADO WERE FORMING ALONG A LINE FROM WALSENBURG...IN HUERFANO COUNTY...SOUTH TO TRINIDAD AND EAST TO KIM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THE STORMS CONTINUED EAST ACROSS BACA COUNTY...JUST SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD TO THE COLORADO KANSAS STATE LINE...SOUTHEAST OF BARTLETT. THIS AREA IN EXTREME SOUTHERN COLORADO IS ALONG A MOISTURE RICH... THUNDERSTORM PRONE BOUNDARY...AND COULD BECOME THE FOCUS AREA FOR SOME SEVERE WEATHER IN SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS EVENING. HAIL...VERY HEAVY RfAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS SHOULD ALL BE ANTICIPATED WITH THESE DEVELOPING STORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. GRAY
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, 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, 5:43 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.