Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 9:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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, 8:37 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lamar, 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 2002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 14.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 150230
SVRPUB
COC099-150335-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
830 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 935 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LAMAR BY 835 PM
* AT 830 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 2 MILES WEST OF LAMAR MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 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.
TMWhat 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, 2:42 PM MDT, 5 hours 48 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, 4 hours 33 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 6:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
COZ077-150130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 643 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WERE NEAR VILLEGREEN AND OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTHEAST AND NORTHWEST OF VILLEGREEN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD QRUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...AND BRING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR EVEN A SMALL SHORT-LIVED TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM...YOU ARE URGED TO FIND SHELTER BEFORE IT REACHES YOUR AREA. TLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 66 min |
| Aug 14, 9:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 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.