Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1996, 2:02 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 25, 1996, 2:02 PM MDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1996, 3:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 20:05 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 25, 2:10 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Rush, 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, 8.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 252003 SVRPUB COC041-252105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 202 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL AND EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 305 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF RAMAH, AND NORTH OF YODER AND RUSH. * AT 200PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALHAN MOVING MOVING EAST 30 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. JLH
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 25, 12:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
COZ060>081-260600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1145 AM MDT WED SEP 25 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 SYNOPSIS: A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING BRINGING COLD UPSLOPE FLOW TO THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS. AFTERNOON HEATING AND COOLING ALOFT FROM AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH...WILL LEAD TO WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. DURING THE EVENING UPSLOPE FLOW WILL PRODUCE COLD AND CLOUDY WEATHER OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS. OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS...RAMPART RANGE AND SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS...THE SNOW LEVEL WILL DROP TO AROUND 7000 FEET BY THURSDAY MORNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 1:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 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.