Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1996, 10:06 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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, 10:06 PM MDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1996, 11:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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, 10:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Granada, 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 180408
SVRPUB
COC099-180510-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1006 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 1110 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
BRISTOL BY 1020 PM
GRANADA BY 1020 PM
HARTMAN BY 1035 PM
HOLLY BY 1040 PM
* AT 1005 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS FROM 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LAMAR TO0 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 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 PUEBLOJ.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
JKWhat 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
Local storm report, Sep 17, 4:55 PM MDT, 5 hours 11 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, 4 hours 53 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, 4 hours 23 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
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 10:03 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
COZ078-080-081-180505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1001 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM MDT... ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... A DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EASTERN KIOWA...PROWERS AND BACA COUNTIES THROUGH 1100 PM MDT. AT 1000 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE VICINITY OF TOWNER IN EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY TO 5 MILES EAST OF LAMAR IN PROWERS COUNTY TO THE VICINITY OF PRITCHETT IN BACA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WIL>L PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 10:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 60 min |
| Sep 17, 10:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 54 min |
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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.