Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Pueblo, CO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Canon 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.
- 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
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.
JKWhat 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 63 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.