Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 7:07 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 8, 1996, 7:07 PM MDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 01:10 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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
- 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 090109
SVRPUB
COC041-090210-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
707 PM MDT THU AUG 8 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 810 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
INTERSTATE 25 NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS THROUGH 730 PM MDT
COLORADO SPRINGS THROUGH 800 PM MDT
* AT 708 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 10 MILES NORTH OF DOWNThOWN
COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
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, 5 hours 1 minute 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 40 minutes 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, 1 hour 34 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
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 6:44 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
COZ071-072-090145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 644 PM MDT THU AUG 8 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 745 PM MDT. AT 644 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONUMENT...AND 5 MILES NORTH AS WELL AS 2 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 5 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. 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, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 63 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.