Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 4:38 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1996, 5:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, Aug 1, 11:05 AM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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COZ068-070-012210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 306 PM MDT THU AUG 1 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 69 BRINGING A THREAT OF RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO WESTCLIFFE AND SILVERCLIFFE BY 330 PM MDT. AT 306 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PUEBLO SHOWED THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF WESTCLIFFE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. FORTUNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 12:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
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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.