Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 5:20 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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
- Sep 2, 1996, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Springfield, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 022320
SVRPUB
COC009-030005-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
520 PM MDT MON SEP 2 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 605 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
SPRINGFIELD BY 520 PM
TWO BUTTES AND HIGHWAY 116 BY 525 PM
OPEN COUNTRY NORTHEAST OF TWO BUTTES BY 520 PM
* AT 517 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF TWO
BUTTES...NEAR TWO BUTTES ALONG HIGHWAY 116...AND 4 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FOLLOW UP STATEMENTSj AND
WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
JKHWhat 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, Sep 2, 11:51 AM MDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
COZ060>081-030600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1149 AM MDT MON SEP 2 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MOST OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS BUT LITTLE IF ANY RAINFALL. WINDS GUSTS COULD EXCEED 60 MPH FROM A FEW STORMS...BUT THE MAJORITY OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 50 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 4:25 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
COZ081-022330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 425 PM MDT MON SEP 2 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN BACA COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 287/385 NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...THROUGH 445PM...AND THEN OVER HIGHWAY 116 AND NEAR TWO BUTTES BY 450 PM. AT 425 PM THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 47 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.