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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 5, 1996Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 3:15 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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 5, 1996, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 3:50 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 052115
SVRPUB
COC061-052150-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
315 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 350 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    HASWELL BY 330 PM MDT

* AT 310 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  HASWELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST 35 MPH.

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETA2ILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

RMG

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, Jun 5, 11:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

COZ060>081-060600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1145 AM MDT WED JUN 5 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

LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...AVAILABLE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...
WILL BE QUICKLY SWEPT INTO KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON.
THEREFORE...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TODAY.
NEAR THE MOUNTAINS...ISVOLATED HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE...PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH BUT VERY LITTLE RAIN.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED.

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

COZ073-052010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
137 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD PUEBLO...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN
AND LIGHTNING WILL MOVE ACROSS PUEBLO BETWEEN 135 AND 2 PM MDT.

AT 130 PM MDT THE STORM PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 58 MPH AT PUEBLO WEST.

AT 135 PM MDT THE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE NORTHSIDE OF PUEBLO MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

FORTUNE

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:59 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

COZ078-052230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
258 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER NORTHWEST KIOWA COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER
3 PM MDT...

THE STORMS WILL MOVE FROM SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY TO NORTHWEST OF
HASWELL IN KIOWA COUNTY. WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR HIGHER...AND HAIL
UP TO A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS
AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST 20 MPH OVER KIOWA COUNTY.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP 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.

STAY TUNED FOR UPCOMING STATEMENTS 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 4, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	29 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

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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.