Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 3:58 PM MDT for Custer County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 29, 1996, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1996, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 111 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 4:15 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Westcliffe, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 292158
SVRPUB
COC027-292245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
358 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 445 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
WESTCLIFFE BY 415 PM
* AT 355 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WESTCLIFFE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR 6FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.
PWWhat 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 29, 12:09 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
COZ060>081-300600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1203 PM MDT MON JUL 29 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 MOISTURE WILL PERSIST TODAY WITH A UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST. MOIST UPSLOPE EASTERLY WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY...WITH THE MAJORITY OF COVERAGE FROM THE LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE EASTERN FOOTHILLS FROM COLORADO SPRINGS SOUTHWARD TO TRINIDAD. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING...SO RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS...BUT THE MAIN THREAT TODAY WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO AREAS MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY...MAINLY TO MONITOR RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND THE POTENTIAL FLASH FLOOD THREAT. RAINFALL REPORTS WILL BEN MOST APPRECIATED. "7"
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:24 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
COZ065-067>069-071>073-292230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 323 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM TELLER COUNTY TO THE UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY SHOWERS...PEA SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN TELLER AND WESTERN FREMONT COUNTIES THROUGH 4 PM MDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE LINE INCLUDE...CRIPPLE CREEK...DIVIDE...THE AIRFORCE ACADEMY AND MONUMENT BY 330 PM. OTHER LOCATIONS INCLUDE TEXAS CREEK BY 335 PM AND THE ROYAL GORGE BY 340 PM MDT. AT 320 PM MDT...THIS LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF THE AIRFORCE ACADEMY TO ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRIPPLE CREEK TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALIDA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:44 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
COZ069-292235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 344 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COALDALE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACROSS MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY OF SOUTHERN FREMONT COUNTY...APPROACHING HILLSIDE BY 415 PM. AT 340 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED THE STRONG STORM OVER COALDALE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 1 INCH OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR FROM THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHNTING. WOLYN
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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.