Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 4:19 PM MDT for El Paso 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
- Jun 12, 1996, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 5:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 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 22:19 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, 10.3 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 122220
SVRPUB
COC041-122305-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
419 PM MDT WED JUN 12 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 505 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OPEN COUNTRY JUST NORTH OF BLACK FOREST BY 425 PM
* AT 417 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 4 MILES NORTH OF BLACK FOREST
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
REMEMBERd...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
MMWhat 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, 4 hours 21 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
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
COZ070-073-122115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 242 PM MDT WED JUN 12 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST CUSTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY AND WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY...BRINGING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AND HEAVY RAIN. AT 240 PM THE STORM WAS OVER FAIRVIEW. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL REACH THE TOWN OF BEULAH BY 255 PM. MM
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:44 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
COZ067-072-122235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 343 PM MDT WED JUN 12 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN TELLER AND NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... AT 425 PM PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FAR NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY...5 MILES NORTH OF WOODLAND PARK. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH...AND WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 45 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
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.