Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 22, 1996Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 10:09 PM MDT for Pueblo 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 22, 1996, 10:09 PM MDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1996, 10:55 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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 219 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 18.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 230408
SVRPUB
COC101-230455-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1009 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  CENTRAL AND EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1055 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    THE CITY OF PUEBLO THROUGH 1055 PM MDT
    VINELAND BY 1020 PM MDT. 
    BOONE AND AVONDALE BY 1030 PM MDT

* AT 1007 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS OVER THE CITY OF PUEBLO
  MOVING SOUTHEAST 15 MPH.


A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

RMG

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 22, 4:46 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

COZ070-073-222335-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
446 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH WESTERN PUEBLO
COUNTY...FROM THE FOOTHILLS NORTHEAST OF BEULAH...TOWARD THE SOUTH SIDE
OF PUEBLO. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND
GUSTS AND HAIL OF 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER OR SMALLER THROUGH 530 PM MDT.

AT 440 PM MDT...THE STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEULAH...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING
WEATHER SITUATION.

GRAY

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:59 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

COZ081-230005-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
500 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

...A WEATHER BOUNDARY HAS BEEN MOVING INTO BACA COUNTY FROM THE NORTH
LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ISOLATED STORMS DEVELOPING NEAR SPRINGFIELD
AROUND 5 PM MDT.

AS THIS BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO PUSH ITS WAY THROUGH BACA COUNTY...IT
MAY TRIGGER STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF
OF THE COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 545 PM MDT.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING
WEATHER SITUATION.

GRAY

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 5:26 PM MDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

COZ077-230030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
525 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY SOUTH OF KIM
THIS EVENING...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50
MPH AND HAIL LESS THAN 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER WILL MOVE OVER THE
OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...SOUTH OF KIM...BETWEEN
525 AND 545 PM MDT.  AFTER 545 PM MDT...THE STORM WIVLL MOVE INTO
UNION COUNTY...NEW MEXICO.

AT 525 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS 15 MILES
SOUTH OF KIM MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:59 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

COZ066-075-077-230230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
658 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ROAMING ACROSS LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

THROUGH AT LEAST 8 PM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT
SOUTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.  A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
TRINIDAD BY 730 PM.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS APPROACHING
50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT 655 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE STORMS 8 MILES NORTH OF TRINIDAD...
17 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD...18 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD...AND
43 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF TRINIDAD NEAR BRANSON.  MOVEMENT OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SR

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:09 PM MDT, 2 hours before

COZ070-073>075-077-230315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
809 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN HUERFANO AND NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS
COUNTIES...

THROUGH 9 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY
INCLUDING I-25 FROM THE PUEBLO COUNTY LINE TO WALSENBURG...AS WELL AS
HIGHWAY 10 NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG.  ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL
MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BETWEEN HIGHWAY 10
AND HIGHWAY 350.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50
MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT 808 PM...RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS 14 MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG
...AND 26 MILES NORTHEAST ZOF WALSENBURG ALONG HIGHWAY 10.

MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SR

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

COZ071>073-230340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
837 PM MDT MON JUL 22 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...

THROUGH 945 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN EL PASO
AND NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTIES BETWEEN COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...
HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT 838 PM...RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS EXTENDING FROM FOUNTAIN TO THE
PUEBLO-EL PASO COUNTY LINE.  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

SR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 8:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	51 min
Jul 22, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jul 22, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	65 min
Jul 22, 9:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Pueblo	50 min
Jul 22, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	2 hr
Jul 22, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jul 23, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	61 min
Jul 23, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996 Every 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.