Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 7:10 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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, 7:10 PM MDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 7:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 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 01:12 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, 7:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Swink, CO | |
| Sep 2, 8:02 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | La Junta, 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, 1.2 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
- 1052 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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, Sep 2, 4:25 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 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, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 61 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.