Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1996, 9:03 PM MDT for El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 30, 1996, 9:03 PM MDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1996, 9:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties El Paso County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 310304
SVRPUB
COC041-101-310350-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
903 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 950 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
FORT CARSON THROUGH 910 PM MDT
AT 900 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 7 MILES WEST OF INTERSTATE
25...OR 18 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE AFFECTING THE FORT CARSON AREA THROUGH 910 PM MDT.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHERh 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 30, 5:02 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
COZ078-310005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 502 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY APPROACHING KIOWA COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AT 500 PM ARE GOING TO MOVE SOUTH INTO WESTERN PARTS OF KIOWA COUNTY BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM MDT. THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO HAVE A STRONG LIKELIHOOD OF BECOMING SEVERE...AND COULD PRODUCE HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. ANYONE IN THE ARLINGTON AND HASWELL AREAS ACROSS WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS NOW FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. AT 500 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED ONE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS.r THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
COZ072-310055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 606 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF EL PASO COUNTY... EXPECT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL NEARING 3/4 INCH DIAMETER ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 625 PM MDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RAMAH...5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CALHAN ON HIGHWAY 24...AT 606 PM MDT`. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 7:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
COZ071-310220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 728 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM IS GOING TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AND HAIL UNDER A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE RUSH AND YODER AREAS BY 730 PM MDT. AT 724 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO DETECTED THIS STORM LOCATED 5 MILEDS NORTH OF RUSH...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.
Local storm report, Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
748 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
0345 PM PRITCHETT CO 1 INCH HAIL
07/30/96 BACA
0611 PM 12 NW HASWELL CO TORNADO
07/30/96 KIOWASpecial weather statement, Jul 30, 7:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
COZ071-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 754 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996 ...ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AN HOUR...ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH CALHAN BY 800 PM. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG STORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHAN AT 752 PM MDT. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 8:44 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
COZ071-072-310350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 843 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF EL PASO COUNTY LATE THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REDEVELOPED OVER MUCH OF EL PASO COUNTY...AND ARE EXPECTED TO BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UNDER 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AS THEY MOVE ACROSS EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM MDT. AT 840 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED TWO THUND ERSTORMS...ONE LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOUNTAIN...NEAR FORT CARSON...AND ANOTHER 8 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS...OR OVER PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:52 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jul 31, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Jul 31, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.