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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 2:56 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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 4, 1996, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1996, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 4, 3:10 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Springfield, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -354 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 042057
SVRPUB
COC009-042145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
256 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ACROSS HIGHWAY 116 WEST OF TWO BUTTES
    ACROSS HIGHWAY 287/385 NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD

* AT 255 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.



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.

SR

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 4, 10:04 AM MDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

COZ060>081-050600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1004 AM MDT SUN AUG 4 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

THERE IS A LACK OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE AREA TODAY...HOWEVER THE
AVAILABLE MID-LEVEL MOISTURE COUPLED WITH THE DAYTIME HEATING...WILL BE
ENOUGH TO CAUSE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

CONDITIONS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY AND SPOTTER
ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.  THE MAIN THREAT FROM STORMS TODAY WILL
BE GUSTY WINDS.

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

COZ074>077-042030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
124 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS LAS ANIMAS AND OTERO COUNTIES...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM...BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50
MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING.

AT 121 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM NEAR
MODEL...OR 22z MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD. ANOTHER STORM WAS 14 MILES
EAST WALSENBURG. ONE OTHER STORM WAS 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIM. ALL THE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

MOORE

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:02 PM MDT, 54 minutes before

COZ079>081-042050-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
202 PM MDT SUN AUG 4 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN BACA COUNTY...

THROUGH 3 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST BACA
COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 287/385.  THIS STORM
WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL
AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT 200 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 22 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
SPRINGFIELD.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 7:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	61 min
Aug 3, 10:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	32 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.