Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1996, 7:39 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 3, 1996, 7:39 PM MDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1996, 8:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 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 01:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Eads, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 3, 3:39 PM MDT, 4 hours before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
COZ075>079-040050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 547 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1996 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS THROUGH 630 PM MDT... AT 540 PM MDT...THE LINE EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HASWELL TO NEAR CHERAW. THE STORMS THEN CONTINUED SOUTHWEST ALONG HIGHWAY 350...WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS JUST TO THE NORTH OF DELHI ...IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST OTERO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE ALONG AND NEAR HIGHWAY 96 AROUND HASWELL AND ARLINGTON IN KIOWA COUNTY TO SUGAR CITY AND CHERAW...AS WELL AS ALONG AND NEAR HIGHWAY 350 THROUGH OTERO COUNTY SHOULD KEEP IN MIND THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH THROUGH 630 PM MDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 11 PM MDT...AND INCLUDES KIOWA COUNTY. GRAY
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:52 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
COZ076-040140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 652 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EAST OTERO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER COMMUNITIES ON HIGHWAY 50 FROM ROCKY FORD TO THE BENT COUNTY LINE INCLUDING LA JUNTA...AND ALSO OVER THE OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...THROUGH 730 PM. AT 648 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS TO 50 MPH...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND PEA-SIZED HAIL. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN ELYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. MOORE
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:58 PM MDT, 41 minutes before
COZ074-040200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 657 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1996 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 69 BETWEEN FARISTA AND WALSENBURG BY 715 PM...AND CROSS INTERSTATE 25 NORTH OF WALSENBURG BRINGING WINDS TO 50 MPH...HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 645 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALSENBURG...OR 4 MILES EAST OF FARISTA...MOVING EAST ZAT 20 MPH. MOORE
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:03 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
COZ079-040150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 703 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS BENT COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER COMMUNITIES ALONG HIGHWAY 50 IN BENT COUNTY THROUGH 745 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND PEA-SIZED HAIL. AT 700 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THESE STORMS EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF LAS ANIMAS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF LAS ANIMAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN OTERO COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEjEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 3, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.