Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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 17, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1996, 6:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 17, 5:52 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Colorado Spgs, 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 172347
SVRPUB
COC041-180050-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
545 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 650 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
COLORADO SPRINGS THROUGH 645 PM
* AT 544 RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES WEST OF SECURITY...OR OVER
HIGHWAY 115 NEAR THE NORTH PORTION OF FORT CARSON...MOVING bNORTHEAST
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.
PEWhat 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 17, 12:04 PM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
COZ060>081-180600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1203 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 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 A SIGNIFICANT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO THE WEST WILL SEND A SERIES OF WEATHER DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN THE TROUGH THROUGH MAINLY WESTERN AND CENTRAL COLORADO. IN THE UPPER LEVELS...COOLER AIR WILL BE MOVING OVER THE AREA AND WILL HELP TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TO THE EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS WILL HELP DRAW LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO INTO THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO. THIS COMBINATION OF WEATHER FACTORS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO RESULT IN ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS. THE AREAS MOST AT RISK FROM SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING INCLUDE KIOWA...PROWERS...BENT AND BACA COUNTIES. OVER THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AND PIKES PEAK REGION... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. TONIGHT...SOME LIGHT SNOW MAY FALL IN THE HIGH COUNTRY ABOVE 10,000 FEET...WITH NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN THE EXTREME EASTERN PORTION OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 2:29 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
COZ071-072-172130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 227 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HAIL 1/4 INCH OR LESS IN DIAMETER AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER COLORADO SPRINGS. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO BLACK FOREST BY 225 PM. A WEATHER SPOTTER AT ACADEMY AND PIKES PEAK REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS AT 215 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. CASEY
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-172205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 300 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL TO COLORADO SPRINGS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER COLORADO SPRINGS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR STREET AND LOW AREA FLOODING ALONG WITH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. AT 250 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO SPRINGS AND EXTENDED FROM THE BLACK FORECAST AND CALHAN AREAS TO FORT CARSON. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER EASTERN COLORADO SPRINGS ALONG ACADEMY BLVD AND BETWEEN PETERSON AFB AND BLACK FOREST. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN IN THE FORT CARSON AREA. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED 1/2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND .25 TO .50 INCHES OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PLEASE USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DRIVING HOME THIS AF(TERNOON AND EVENING. WATCH OUT FOR AREAS WHERE WATER MAY BE COVERING THE ROAD. THIS IS ESPECIALLY LIKELY ALONG ACADEMY BLVD AND US-24. FORTUNE
Local storm report, Sep 17, 4:55 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO, CO
455 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996
TIME(MDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
..COUNTY LOCATION..
0316 PM 2 NE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 1 INCH HAIL
09/17/96 EL PASO
0334 PM PEYTON CO 0.75 INCH HAIL
09/17/96 EL PASO
TLMSpecial weather statement, Sep 17, 5:13 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
COZ071-072-180015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 511 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FALCON AREA THROUGH 530 PM AND WILL MOVE INTO THE PEYTON AREA BY 515 PM. AT 508 PM MDT THIS WAS 1 MILE EAST OF FALCON AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. CASEY
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 5:43 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
COZ071-072-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 541 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH WESTERN AND NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY. ONE STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF FORT CARSON THROUGH 550 PM...AND WILL THEN MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD THE COLORADO SPRINGS AIRPORT. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF PEYT6ON THROUGH 6 PM. AT 540 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM MONUMENT HILL SOUTHWARD TO 9 MILES WEST OF FOUNTAIN. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. DC/PE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 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.