Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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 25, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1996, 8:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 260146
SVRPUB
COC101-260235-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
745 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 835 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
PUEBLO THROUGH AT LEAST 815 PM
* AT 745 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM AT PUEBLO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER.
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.
SRWhat 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, 4:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
COZ062>064-260115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 439 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 ...GUSTY WEST WINDS IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY EVENING IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...ESPECIALLY ON NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS...PLEASE KEEP A FIRM GRIP ON THE WHEEL AND WATCH FOR AREAS OF BLOWING DUST OR SAND THAT COUVLD REDUCE VISIBILITIES.
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 4:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
COZ071-072-252350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 446 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER EL PASO COUNTY FROM NEAR COLORADO SPRINGS TO NEAR CALHAN LATE THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL MOVE OVER EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM MDT. COLORADO SPRINGS ...SECURITY-WIDEFIELD...FOUNTAIN...ELLICOTT...YODER...RUSH...RAMAH AND TRUCKTON ARE IN THE PATH OF TfHESE STORMS. AT 445 PM MDT...THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR COLORADO SPRINGS TO NEAR CALHAN. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LW
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 5:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
COZ071>073-076-260125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 552 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH AT LEAST 7 PM...AFFECTING AREAS MAINLY EAST OF I-25...SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 94 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AND HAIL. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LIGHTNING... WHICH CAN BE DEADLY. AT 550 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF PUEBLO...NEAR PINON...TO RUSH IN EL PASO COUNTY. MO@VEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SR
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 6:03 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
COZ075-077-260150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 602 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... APPROACHING VILLEGREEN BY 650 PM AND KIM BY 700 PM. THE STORM WILL REMAIN MOSTLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 601 PM..`.RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 20 MILES WEST OF VILLEGREEN...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. SR
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 6:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
COZ075-077-081-260245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 642 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT VILLEGREEN THROUGH 700 PM AND BE NEAR KIM BY 650 PM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...HAIL...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 641 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE STORM 9 MILES WEST OF KIM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SR
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 7:33 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ073-260250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 732 PM MDT WED SEP 25 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PUEBLO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 830 PM. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN PUEBLO AND COLORADO CITY BY 745 PM...AND AFFECT SOUTHERN PUEBLO BY 735 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPHf...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 730 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE STORMS EXTENDING FROM THE SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF PUEBLO TO COLORADO CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. SR
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.