Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 8:47 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 29, 1996, 8:47 PM MDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1996, 9:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 702 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 29, 5:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
COZ071-072-300015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 509 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL TO AROUND 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 94 FROM YODER TO RUSH THROUGH 530 PM MDT. AT 505 PM MDT...THE STORM WAS 3 MILES NORTH OF YODER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPBH. LW
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 7:46 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
COZ076-300250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 745 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CROWLEY AND OTERO COUNTIES THIS EVENING... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER CROWLEY AND OTERO COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL TRACK OVER CROWLEY...ORDWAY...OLNEY SPRINGS...FOWLER...SUGAR CITY AND ROCKY FORD. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...HAIL TO AROUND 1/2 INCH DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH. AT 740 PM MDT...THESE STORMS COVERED MUCH OF SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAIN FALLING AT RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR OVER SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY. &LW
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 8:02 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
COZ066-074-075-300305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 802 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 12 WEST OF TRINIDAD THROUGH 830 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OVER WESTON AND SEGUNDO. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 800 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWEVD THIS STORM 20 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 8:17 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
COZ066-074-075-300305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 802 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 12 WEST OF TRINIDAD THROUGH 830 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OVER WESTON AND SEGUNDO. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND GUSTY WINDS. AT 800 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM 20 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. KT
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 8:23 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
COZ073-300255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 822 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY ENDED AT 800 PM... THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS ENDED AT 800 PM. THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED WELL OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING CAN STILL BE EXPECTED...BUT WATER WILL CONTINUE TO RECEDE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 75 min |
| Aug 29, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 11:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.