Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1996, 10:05 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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 9, 1996, 10:05 PM MDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1996, 10:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 10:10 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Security, 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, 4.1 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 100405
SVRPUB
COC041-100455-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1005 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 1055 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
FOUNTAIN THROUGH 1015 PM MDT
SECURITY AND WIDEFIELD BY 1010 PM MDT
* AT 1004 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM OVER FOUNTAIN WHICH WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.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 9, 6:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
COZ072-100135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 645 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE AC.ROSS US 24 AND THE TOWN OF RAMAH THROUGH 715 PM MDT BRINGING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. AT 638 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 8 MILES NORTH OF RAMAH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 8:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
COZ071-072-100325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 819 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY THIS EVENING... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL TRACK OVER THE OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 850 PM...BRINGING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL APPROACHING 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AT 815 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF YODER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 8:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
COZ071-072-100345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 839 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YODER... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH...AND SHOULD BE APPROACHING YODER IN NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY BY 850 PM MDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AND HAIL NEARING 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 838 PM MDT THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MI|LES EAST NORTHEAST OF YODER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 9:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
COZ078-100405- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 902 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 ...STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS PRODUCED BY THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING KIOWA COUNTY THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE OUTFLOW WINDS UP TO 45 MPH IN ADVANCE OF THESE STORMS ACROSS NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH 945 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY TRACK INTO NORTH ERN KIOWA COUNTY. AT 858 PM MDT...DENVER DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM LOCATED ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 9:31 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
COZ078-100435- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 931 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER KIOWA COUNTY THIS EVENING... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL APPROACHING 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL TRACK SOUTH ACROSS KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH 1015 PM. AT 915 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ARLINGTON...EAST ALONG HIGHWAY 96 TO NEAR SHERIDAN LAKE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 3 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF HASWELL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.
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.