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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 13, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 289 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

JK

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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 4:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso49 min
Aug 14, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
Aug 14, 5:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca63 min
Aug 14, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
Aug 14, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley61 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.