Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 1:56 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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 26, 1996, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1996, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Teller County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 261957
SVRPUB
COC119-262100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
156 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 300 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CRIPPLE CREEK AND VICTOR BY 200 PM MDT
* AT 155 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM IN THE VICINITY OF CRIPPLE
CREEK AND VICTOR MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.
SCWhat 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 26, 11:52 AM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
COZ060>081-270600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1150 AM MDT FRI JUL 26 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 ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST...WILL INITIATE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THERE IS A THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS ON THE EASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT THE THREAT IS NOT A GREAT AS EARLIER ANTICIPATED. LOW CLOUDS ARE PERSISTING OVER PARTS OF THE EASTERN PLAINS...REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DAYTIME HEATING. WITH LESS HEATING...THE INSTABILITY WILL NOT BE A GREAT AS FIRST ANTICIPATED. ON THE EASTERN PLAINS THERE STILL IS A THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PERSIST WELL INTO THE EVENING IN KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES. OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND SAN LUIS VALLEY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO EARLY EVENING...BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXCECTED TO BE SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. WOLYNV
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:58 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
COZ067>069-071>073-262000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1257 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER THE MOUNTAINS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING OVER THE UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEY AND THE PIKES PEAK REGION THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. AT 1245 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PUEBLO SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 115 WEST OF FORT CARSON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BRING LIGHT SHOWERS ACROSS FORT CARSON TO I-25 NEAR PINON BY 2 PM MDT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEY FROM BUENA VISTA TO THE ROYAL GORGE. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS ON THESE DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:41 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
COZ067-069>071-073-262045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 141 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING ACROSS THE REGION AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY NEAR VICTOR IS GOING TO CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UNDER 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AS IT CROSSES HIGHWAY 115 BETWEEN 2 AND 230 PM MDT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEY AND ALONG THE WET MOUNTAINS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY DRIFT EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON...PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE MOVING SLOWLY EAST ACROSS FREMONT AND CUSTER COUNTIES THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE DEVELOPING STORMS. SC/BF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Jul 26, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 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.