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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 12, 1996Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 1:55 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 12, 1996, 1:55 PM MDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 2:55 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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
Jun 12, 2:05 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Weston, CO
Jun 12, 2:10 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Stonewall, CO
Jun 12, 2:10 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Weston, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 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 121955
SVRPUB
COC071-122055-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
155 PM MDT WED JUN 12 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 255 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    VIGIL BY 205 PM
    WESTON BY 215 PM

* AT 150 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTON ON
  HIGHWAY 12 MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
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REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

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

RSG

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, Jun 12, 11:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

COZ060>081-130600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1155 AM MDT WED JUN 12 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO CO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	45 min
Jun 12, 4:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	46 min
Jun 12, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	45 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	48 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.