Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 12:06 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 1, 1996, 12:06 AM MDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1996, 1:05 AM MDT
- In force
- 59 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 06:05 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, 6.1 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 010606
SVRPUB
COC061-010705-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1206 AM MDT THU AUG 1 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 105 AM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
HASWELL BY 1210 AM
ARLINGTON BY 1225 AM
* AT 1203 AM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 9 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
HASWELL MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
PEWhat 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, 6:09 PM MDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
COZ073-010130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 609 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IS GOING TO MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 10 AND THE OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY THROUGH 640 PM MDT. AT 608 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:13 PM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
COZ076-010115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 613 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM OVER CROWLEY COUNTY...NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY... LOOK FOR A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL NEARING 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM MDT. AT 612 PM THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:29 PM MDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
COZ077-010135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 629 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND WESTERN PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH...FROM JUST NORTH OF TRINIDAD INTO WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 710 PM MDT. DOPPLER RADAR AT 627 PM MDT SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD ALONG HIGHWAY 315...NEAR HOEHNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER WEAKER STORMS EXTENDED FROM HOEHNE NORTH ALONG HIGHWAY 350 TO DELHI. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:19 PM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
COZ074-075-077-010225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 719 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND WESTERN PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING... YOU CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WINDS GUSTING AS HIGH AS 45 MPH... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FROM NEAR TIMPAS...OR EAST OF TRINIDAD...THEN ACROSS THE WESTERN QUARTER OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. ONE STORM WAS 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIM...WITH ANOTHER STORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF TRINCHERA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:58 PM MDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
COZ077-079-081-010305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 758 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST BENT AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL NEARING 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH...ARE GOING TO BE MOVING ACROSS THE OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHWEST BENT AND EASTERN PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 840 PM MDT. b AT 757 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE...EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Local storm report, Jul 31, 8:29 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
729 PM MST WED JUL 31 1996
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
0312 PM CALHAN CO 60 MPH WIND GUST
07/31/96 EL PASO
0436 PM 15 S AND 2 E WALSH CO 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/31/96 BACA
0453 PM 2 S AND 3 E STONINGTON CO 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/31/96 BACA
0500 PM 2 S AND 3 E STONINGTON CO 1.50 INCH HAIL
07/31/96 BACA BROKEN WINDSHIELDS
0530 PM 4 E CAMPO CO 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/31/96 BACAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.