Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 6:01 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 4, 1996, 6:01 PM MDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3427 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 050001
SVRPUB
COC061-050030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
601 PM MDT TUE JUN 4 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CHIVINGTON BY 605 PM MDT
BRANDON BY 615 PM MDT
* AT 600 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS 3 MILES WEST OF CHIVINGTON
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
RMGWhat 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, Jun 4, 5:53 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
COZ078-079-050040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 554 PM MDT TUE JUN 4 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN KIOWA AND MOST OF PROWERS COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM MDT... THE STRONGEST STORMS...AT 545 PM MDT...WERE 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF EADS. AT AN EAST SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT OF 25 MPH...THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE NEAR CHIVINGTON BY 600 PM...ON TO BRANDON AND HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN 615 PM AND 630 PM MDT. OTHER STORMS WERE IN NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY...10 MILES EAST OF LAMAR. ALSO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 25 MPH...THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE GRANADA BY 615 PM MDT...AND ON TO HOLLY AROUND 630 PM MDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. GRAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 29 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.