Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 4:03 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min. 6 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
- May 31, 1996, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1996, 5:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:20 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Eads, CO | |
| May 31, 4:23 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Eads, CO | |
| May 31, 4:35 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Eads, CO | |
| May 31, 4:47 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Eads, CO | |
| May 31, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Sheridan Lake, CO | |
| May 31, 5:05 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Sheridan Lake, 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 312202
SVRPUB
COC061-312305-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
403 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 505 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 287 5 MILES NORTH OF EADS BY 415 PM
* AT 400 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
A\ TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
MMWhat 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, May 31, 12:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
COZ060>081-010600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1245 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 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 ...NO SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY... PIKES PEAK REGION WILL SEE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FAIRLY LOW. SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS ARE COOLER THAN YESTERDAY AND WITHOUT UPPER LEVEL JET SEVERE CONVECTION IS DOUBTFUL. WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL BE THE PRIMARY INSTIGATOR OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY BRING GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST ONTO THE PLAINS. FARTHER EAST...HIGH DEWPOINTS FROM LA JUNTA TO KANSAS BORDER WILL PROVIDE MOISTURE SUPPORT AND ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP TO SEVERE LEVELS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS BUT SHOULD BE LESS THAN 50 MPH. LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY BE THE MOST COMMON THREAT INTO THE EVENING HOURS. TO RECAP...GREATEST THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER PIKES PEAK REGION AND OVER COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE COLORADO/KANSAS BORDER. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EXTREME EASTERWN COUNTIES INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON EXCEPT OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:51 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
COZ060>081-010600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1245 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 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 PIKES PEAK REGION WILL SEE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FAIRLY LOW. SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS ARE COOLER THAN YESTERDAY AND WITHOUT UPPER LEVEL JET SEVERE CONVECTION IS DOUBTFUL. WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL BE THE PRIMARY INSTIGATOR OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY BRING GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST ONTO THE PLAINS. FARTHER EAST...HIGH DEWPOINTS FROM LA JUNTA TO KANSAS BORDER WILL PROVIDE MOISTURE SUPPORT AND ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP TO SEVERE LEVELS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS BUT SHOULD BE LESS THAN 50 MPH. LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY BE THE MOST COMMON THREAT INTO THE EVENING HOURS. TO RECAP...GREATEST THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER PIKES PEAK REGION AND OVER COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE COLORADO/KANSAS BORDER. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EXTREME EASTERN COUNTIES INTO THE EVENING HOURS.j SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON EXCEPT OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
COZ081-312040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 148 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY... A STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER CAMPO BY 215 PM MDT AND TO NEAR STONINGTON BY 230 PM MDT. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL LESS THAN 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. AT 145 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM LOCATED 12 MILErS SOUTHEAST OF CAMPO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:03 PM MDT, 1 hour before
COZ076-077-312210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 303 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996 ...STRONG STORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY... STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 350 REACHING TIMPAS BY 4 PM...PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. AT 300 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. MM b
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| May 31, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 25 min |
| May 31, 5:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 31, 5:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.