Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1996, 7:26 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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 13, 1996, 7:26 PM MDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 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 01:28 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, 1.4 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
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 140126
SVRPUB
COC041-140230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
726 PM MDT TUE AUG 13 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 830 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
YODER BY 730 PM MDT
TRUCKTON BY 745 PM MDT
* AT 726 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM IN THE VICINITY OF YODER
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
LISTEN TO NOAA WE6ATHER 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 13, 6:57 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
COZ071-072-140155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 656 PM MDT TUE AUG 13 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG I-25 BETWEEN MONUMENT AND COLORADO SPRINGS THROUGH 745 PM MDT. AT 656 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING 12 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. JK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Aug 14, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 61 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.