Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 2:02 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 25, 1996, 2:02 PM MDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 3:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:12 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Divide, 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 252003
SVRPUB
COC041-119-252105-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
202 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
EASTERN TELLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 305 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CRYSTOLA...GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...CASCADE BY 220 PM MDT AND MANITOU
SPRINGS BY 230 PM MDT.
* AT 2 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM NEAR DIVIDE MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS WHICH WILL BE
ISSUED SHORTLY BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.
RMGWhat 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 25, 12:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
COZ060>081-260600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1205 PM MDT THU JUL 25 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 ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO REMAINS ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED FROM PREVIOUS DAYS. CONSEQUENTLY...ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED. ADDITIONALLY...SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO WILL LIKELY SEE A FAIR NUMBER OF STORMS TODAY DUE TO AN INFLUX OF MOISTURE INTO THE SAN LUIS VALLEY OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY START OUT ON THE WEAK SIDE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...A FEW STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRIGGERS DEEP CONVECTION. WITH THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED FROM PREVIOUS DAYS...THE MAIN THREATS FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY REMAIN THE SAME. COLD AIR ALOFT WILL ALLOW FOR LARGE HAIL PRODUCTION AND WIND SHEAR PROFILES AGAIN SUPPORT THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW TORNADIC STORMS. OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE BULK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL AGA,IN HOLD OFF UNTIL THIS EVENING AS THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS NOT EXPECTED UNTIL THAT TIME. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATE TODAY OR THIS EVENING SO SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN HANDY. LW
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 12:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
COZ068-073-251920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1228 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF CANON CITY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS CANON CITY BY 1245 PM...BRING HAIL UP TO 1/2 DIAMETER AND BRING HEAVY RAIN. AT 1225 PM DOPLLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED THE STORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.l WOLYN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 89 min |
| Jul 24, 6:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 35 min |
| Jul 25, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 64 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.