Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1996, 6:24 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 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 19, 1996, 6:24 PM MDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1996, 7:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 200025
SVRPUB
COC025-200120-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
624 PM MDT MON AUG 19 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 720 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
IN THE VICINITY OF ORDWAY BY 635 PM MDT
IN THE VICINITY OF SUGAR CITY BY 645 PM MDT
* AT 624 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORDWAY
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
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 DETAILS4 WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
JKWhat 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 19, 2:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
COZ072-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 226 PM MDT MON AUG 19 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE MONUMENT AREA... YOU CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WINDS GUSTING AS HIGH AS 45 MPH... AND HAIL APPROACHING 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER IN THE MONUMENT AREA IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 245 PM MDT. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS GOING TO AFFECT CRYSTOLA ALONG HIGHWAY 24 THROUGH 235 PM MDT. AT 225 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF MONUMENT...WITH ANOTHER STORM LOCATED OVER THE COMMUNITY OF CRYSTOLA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
COZ071-072-192215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 313 PM MDT MON AUG 19 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... EXPECT PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTING AS HIGH AS 50 MPH OVER MOST OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 410 PM MDT. AT 308 PM DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE...EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SECURITY TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLACK FOREST. AT 310 PM A SPOTTER REPORTED HAIL OF A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AT THE INTERSECTION OF BRIARGATE AND ACADEMY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WASp TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF 0.75 TO 1.00 INCH PER HOUR IN THE MONUMENT HILL AREA SINCE 215 PM MDT.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
COZ073-192325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 421 PM MDT MON AUG 19 1996 ...LOOK FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW WINDS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY... RAIN COOLED AIR FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY WAS PRODUCING OUTFLOW WINDS WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO RUSH ACROSS NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM MDT. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO GUST AS HIGH AS 45 MPH AS THESE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOWS MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY. AT 419 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED THE STORM PRODUCING THESE STRONG GUSTY WINDS LOCATED ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PINON. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS ATTENDING THE COLORADO STATE FAIR SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS BRIEFLY AS THESE GUSTY WINDS MOVE ACROSS THE FAIRGROUNDS BY 450 PM MDT.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
COZ073-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 511 PM MDT MON AUG 19 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...BRINGING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN...ARE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST PUEBLO OCUNTY. AT 500 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED A LINE OF STORMS FROM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO TO 17 MILES NORTH OF AVONDALE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIHKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE. WOLYN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 6:12 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ076-200115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 611 PM MDT MON AUG 19 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST CROWLEY COUNTY... LOOK FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ALONG WITH HAIL TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTING AS HIGH AS 50 MPH ACROSS WESTERN CROWLEY COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM. AT 610 PM THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORDWAY... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.