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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 17, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1996, 10:26 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 1996, 10:26 PM MDT (04:26 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 1996, 11:20 PM MDT
In force: 54 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 04:29 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 180428
SVRPUB
COC009-180520-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1026 PM MDT TUE SEP 17 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1120 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    SPRINGFIELD BY 1035 PM MDT

* AT 1025 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS 10 MILES WEST OF
  SPRINGFIELD 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 PUEBLO.

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

JK

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

Local storm report, Sep 17, 4:55 PM MDT, 5 hours 31 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

TLM

Special weather statement, Sep 17, 5:13 PM MDT, 5 hours 13 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 43 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, 23 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, 10:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	64 min
Sep 17, 10:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.