Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 29, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 9:35 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 75 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 29, 1996, 9:35 PM MDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1996, 10:50 PM MDT
In force: 75 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 03:37 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 29, 10:00 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Colorado Spgs, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 300336
SVRPUB
COC041-300450-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
935 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996

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

* UNTIL 1050 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    PALMER LAKE BY 935 PM
    MONUMENT BY 935 PM
    AIR FORCE ACADEMY BY 940 PM
    COLORADO SPRINGS BY 950 PM

* AT 930 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM OVER PALMER LAKE AND MONUMENT
  HILL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.

A FOLLOW UFP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

MM

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, 4 hours 25 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 49 minutes 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, 1 hour 33 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, 1 hour 18 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, 1 hour 12 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, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	63 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

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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.