Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 7:44 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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, 7:44 PM MDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:00 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Towner, 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 030144
SVRPUB
COC061-030230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
744 PM MDT MON SEP 2 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 830 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEAST KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM
* AT 742 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWNER
MOVING EAST AT 10 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.
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, 4:25 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 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, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 45 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.