Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 11:40 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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, 11:40 PM MDT (05:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1996, 12:40 AM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 300541
SVRPUB
COC101-300640-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1140 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 1240 AM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY
BOONE BY MIDNIGHT MDT
* AT 1140 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES EAST OF PINON
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 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 DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
RlMGWhat 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, 7:46 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 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, 3 hours 38 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, 3 hours 23 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, 3 hours 17 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
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 11:29 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
COZ073-300630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1128 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND THROUGH EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE EL PASO-PUEBLO COUNTY LINE BY 1130 PM...AND REACH THE PUEBLO AND PUEBLO WEST AREAS BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. AT 1125 PM...THIS LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHERN ELZ PASO COUNTY TO TO FLORENCE IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FOR A SHORT TIME. TLM
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, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 75 min |
| Aug 29, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 61 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.