Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1996, 2:15 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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 31, 1996, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1996, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 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 20:17 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 31, 3:12 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | 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, 8.3 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 31, 12:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
COZ060>081-010600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1206 AM MDT WED JUL 31 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 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS... ABUNDANT LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PERSIST TODAY ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS...PRIMARILY IN CROWLEY...OTERO...KIOWA...BENT...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS... PROWERS AND BACA COUNTIES...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR LARGER IN DIAMETER AND/OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. MOVEMENT OF STORMS WILL BE TO THE SOUTHEAST. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR...WHICH COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...ROADS...DITCHES...UNDERPASSES AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IN COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO MAY BE NECESSARY LATER TODAY...AND REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER WILL BE MOST APPRECIATED. $
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 12:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
COZ060>081-010600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1206 PM MDT WED JUL 31 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 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS... ABUNDANT LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PERSIST TODAY ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS...PRIMARILY IN CROWLEY...OTERO...KIOWA...BENT...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS... PROWERS AND BACA COUNTIES...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR LARGER IN DIAMETER AND/OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. MOVEMENT OF STORMS WILL BE TO THE SOUTHEAST. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR...WHICH COU:LD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...ROADS...DITCHES...UNDERPASSES AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IN COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO MAY BE NECESSARY LATER TODAY...AND REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER WILL BE MOST APPRECIATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 9:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 4:52 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.