Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 6:41 PM MDT for El Paso 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
- May 9, 1996, 6:41 PM MDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 6:45 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Rush, 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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, May 9, 5:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
COZ071-072-100120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 516 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF PEYTON AT 510 PM...WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF CALHAN BY 520 PM AND WILL APPROACH RAMAH BY 540 PM. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCnCUR 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 46 min |
| May 9, 10:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
| May 9, 10:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.