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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 8, 1996Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 6:27 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 8, 1996, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 8, 7:00 PM MDTHail 0.75Canon City, 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 614 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 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 090027
SVRPUB
COC043-090130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
627 PM MDT THU AUG 8 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY      IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    CANON CITY BY 635 PM MDT
    ROYAL GORGE AREA BY 645 PM MDT

* AT 626 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANON
  CITY MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.d

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.

JK

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 8, 2:06 PM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
COZ067-082110-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
206 PM MDT THU AUG 8 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER TELLER COUNTY...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS TELLER COUNTY THROUGH 300 PM MDT.
AT 205 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 7
MILES NORTH OF CRIPPLE CREEK AND 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF DIVIDE.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2
INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

JK
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:27 PM MDT, 2 hours before
COZ065-068-082330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
427 PM MDT THU AUG 8 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER FREMONT COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH
525 PM MDT.  AT 427 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOWARD IN WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH
DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL.

DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.  THE ROADWAY
OR PATHWAY MAY BE WASHED OUT...AND WATER COULD BE MUCH DEEPER
THAN YOU THINK.  KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING
WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH
WATER.

JK
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:33 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ068-073-090035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
532 PM MDT THU AUG 8 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH
630 PM MDT.  AT 532 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANON CITY IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE WEST AT 5 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH
DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL.

DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.  THE ROADWAY
OR PATHWAY MAY BE WASHED OUT...AND WATER COULD BE MUCH DEEPER
THAN YOU THINK.  KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING
WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH
WATER.

JK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 7:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso63 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.