Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 4:07 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 11, 1996, 4:07 PM MDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 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 22:11 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 112207
SVRPUB
COC041-112240-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
407 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 440 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OPEN COUNTRY IN EXTREME NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY
* AT 405 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RAMAH
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
A F`OLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
DC/PWWhat 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, Jun 11, 1:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
COZ068-112015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 109 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...WILL MOVE ALONG US 50 BETWEEN PONCHA SPRINGS AND COTOPAXI BY 2PM. AT 105PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WELLSVILE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REACH HOWARD BY 120PM. MOlTORISTS ON US 50 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. WOLYN
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 1:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
COZ068-073-112105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 158 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN FREMONT COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING SM
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 2:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
COZ073-112140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 237 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND WESTERN PUEBLO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...WILL MOVE OVER PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 330 PM. AT 235 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SAN ISABEL...IN PUEBLO COUNTY TO PENROSE IN FREMONT COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BY 300 PM THE LINE OF STORMS WILL REASCH FROM COLORADO CITY TO PUEBLO WEST. MOTORISTS AND PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. CASEY/WOLYN
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 2:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
COZ071-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 258 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO FORT CARSON AND FOUNTAIN THROUGH 330 PM. AT 255 PM...RADAR INDICATED STORMS OVER FORT CARSON AND FOUNTAIN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. THESE STORMS OVER WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY NEED TO BE MONITORED AS A THEY COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE. HAYNES
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
COZ073-112140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 304 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PUEBLO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING SMALL HAIL...S<TRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN TO THE PUEBLO AREA THROUGH 330 PM. AT 300 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STORMS FROM FORT CARSON TO JUST SOUTH OF COLORADO CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HAYNES
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:49 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
COZ071>073-112255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 349 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PUEBLO...EL PASO AND NORTHEAST HUERFANO COUNTIES... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL BRING SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN TO EASTERN PUEBLO...EASTERN EL PASO... NORTHEAST HUERFANO AND NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM. AT 345 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STORMS FROM ELLICOTT...IN EL PASO COUNTY TO 5 MILES EAST OF WALSENBURG IN HUERFANO COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. CASEY/WOLYN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 49 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.