Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 9:04 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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
- May 9, 1996, 9:04 PM MDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 9:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 100305 SVRPUB COC089-100350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 904 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO CO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...EASTERN OTERO COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 109 SOUTH OF LA JUNTA BY 905 PM...BRINGING 3/4 INCH DIAMETER OR LARGER HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH. AT 902 PM...RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE STORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. ADVANCE PLANNING DURING A TORNADO WATCH IS ESSENTIAL. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE TO GO TO BE SAFE IN THE PLACE YOU ARE...OR WILL BE LOCATED.
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, May 9, 5:17 PM MDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
COZ071-072-100120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 516 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF PEYTON AT 510 PM...WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF CALHAN BY 520 PM AND WILL APPROACH RAMAH BY 540 PM. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCnCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.
Special weather statement, May 9, 7:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
COZ071-072-100315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 754 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE DEVELOPING IN EL PASO COUNTY... AT 750 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE EL PASO AND LINCOLN COUNTY LINE EAST OF RUSH....ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTH OF FALCON ALONG HIGHWAY 94. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. ADVANCE PLANNING DURING A TORNADO WATCH IS ESSENTIAL. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE TO GO TO BE SAFE IN THE PLACE YOU ARE...OR WILL BE LOCATED.
Special weather statement, May 9, 8:36 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
COZ076-100425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 836 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN OTERO COUNTY... AT 832 PM RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAWLEY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 71 SOUTH OF HAWLEY BETWEEN 845 AND 900 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YzOU MAY BE.
Special weather statement, May 9, 8:50 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
COZ078-100425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 850 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST KIOWA COUNTY... AT 848 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE ALONG HIGHWAY 385. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. ADVANCE PLANNING DURING A TORNADO WATCH IS ESSENTIAL. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE TO GO TO BE SAFE IN THE PLACE YOU ARE...OR WILL BE LOCATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 49 min |
| May 9, 10:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
| May 9, 10:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 46 min |
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.