Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 4:06 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
- Aug 14, 1996, 4:06 PM MDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 4:55 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 22:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 4:50 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Peyton, 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 142206
SVRPUB
COC041-142255-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
406 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 455 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CALHAN BY 415PM
HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN RAMAH AND PEYTON BY 415PM
* AT 405PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHAN
MOVING SOUTHEAST fAT 10 MPH.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER 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.
PWWhat 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 14, 11:45 AM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
COZ060>081-150600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1145 AM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER EXTREME EASTERN AREAS OF THE REGION WILL HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF LOWER LEVEL MOISTURE THIS AFTERNOON WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER THIS AREA HELPING INITIATE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS EVENING. MID AND UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE REMAIN MOIST BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS LACKING OVER THE REST OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH LITTLE RAIN EXPECTED BUT GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. SOME THUNDERSTORM GUSTS MAY REACH 50 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY IN KIOWA...PROWERS... BENT...AND BACA COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
COZ067-142045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 153 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TELLER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM...AFFECTING CRIPPLE CREEK...VICTOR...AND MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 67. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 150 PM THE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER CRIPPLE CREEK AND ALONG HIGHWAY 67 AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
COZ067-068-073-142135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 243 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CUSTER AND TELLER COUNTIES... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM. AT 235 PM THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WETMORE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE FROM SOUTHERN TELLER COUNTY INTO NORTHEAST FREMONT COUNTYz BY 255 PM. AT 235 PM THIS STORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRIPPLE CREEK AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN..AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:57 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
COZ071-072-142245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 357 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM...AFFECTING CALHAN BY 405 PM. YOU CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WIND WITH THIS STORM IN THE PEYTON...CALHAN...AND RAMAH AREAS. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. AT 35P5 PM THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHAN AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.