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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 14, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 5:54 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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, 5:54 PM MDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 1996, 6:55 PM MDT
In force: 61 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 23:53 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, 6:03 PM MDT	Hail 1	Calhan, 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, 11.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 142354
SVRPUB
COC041-150055-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
554 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 655 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    CALHAN BY 605 PM
    OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF CALHAN THROUGH 655 PM

* AT 554 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHAN
  MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 555 PM...

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

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.

TM

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 14, 1:53 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute 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, 3 hours 12 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, 1 hour 57 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, 4:06 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, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	61 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.