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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 6:18 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1996, 7:20 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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, 6:42 PM MDT	Hail 1	Springfield, CO
Jul 29, 7:21 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Pritchett, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 300019
SVRPUB
COC009-300120-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
618 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 720 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHWEST BACA COUNTY BY 620 PM MDT

* AT 617 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  SPRINGFIELD MOVING MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATION<AL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.

SC

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 29, 3:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 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, 2 hours 34 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

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

COZ078>081-292345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
456 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST PLAINS...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...BRINGING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN
DIAMETER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAVE DEVELOPED
OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS.

ONE STORM WILL MOVE OVER LAS ANIMAS BY 500 PM.

ANOTHER STROM WILL WILL PASS OVER OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF LAMAR AND EAST
OF HIGHJWAY 287.

A THIRD STORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTY 5 MILES NORTH OF HOLLY.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WOLYN

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 5:59 PM MDT, 19 minutes before

COZ078>081-300135-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
558 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER BENT...PROWERS AND BACA
COUNTIES THROUGH AT LEAST 700 PM...BRINGING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL
HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

ONE GROUP OF STORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE CITY OF LAS ANIMAS AND OPEN
COUNTRY OF SOUTHEAST BENT COUNTY THROUGH 700 PM.  AT 550 PM THESE
STORMS EXTENDED FROM THE CITY OF LAS ANIMAS TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
TOONERVILE...SLOWLY MOVING EAST.

ANOTHER GROUP OF STORMS WILL PASS OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF PROWERS COUNTY
SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 THROUGH 700 PM.  AT 500 PM THESE STORMS EXTENDED
FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLY.  THESE STROMS
WERE SLOWLY MOVING EAST.

WOLYN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	60 min
Jul 29, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	63 min
Jul 30, 1:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Prowers	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	49 min
Jul 30, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
Jul 30, 5:52 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	63 min

Nearby

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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.