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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 29, 1996Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 9:44 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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, 9:44 PM MDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1996, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 29, 10:00 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 62Woodland Park, 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 702 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
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 300345
SVRPUB
COC119-300445-

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  TELLER COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF WOODLAND PARK BY 945 PM
    WOODLAND PARK BY 1000 PM

* AT 943 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES NORTH OF WOODLAND PARK
  MOVING SOUTH 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.

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 34 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 58 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 42 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 27 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 21 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero63 min
Aug 29, 9:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso75 min
Aug 29, 11:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo60 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.