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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 5, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 5:46 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 5, 1996, 5:46 PM MDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 6:00 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 61Walsh, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 578 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-329 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa29 min
Jun 5, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa35 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca24 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.