Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 3:53 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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 26, 1996, 3:53 PM MDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 26, 4:20 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Calhan, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 262153
SVRPUB
COC041-262225-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
353 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 425 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CALHAN BY 400 PM MDT
* AT 352 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CALHAN
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOlR 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, 4 hours 1 minute 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, 2 hours 55 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, 2 hours 12 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, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 64 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.