Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 3:28 PM MDT for Bent 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 4, 1996, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 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
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 4, 10:04 AM MDT, 5 hours 24 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, 2 hours 4 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, 1 hour 26 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, 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, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.