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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 12, 1996Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 6:21 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 7:25 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -240 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 130022
SVRPUB
COC061-130125-

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 725 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    EADS BY 645 PM
    HIGHWAY 287 BY 630 PM

* AT 620 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS
  MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

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

MM

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, 2:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 38 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, 2 hours 37 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

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 5:27 PM MDT, 54 minutes before

COZ073-130030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
526 PM MDT WED JUN 12 1996

...STORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY...

AT 520 PM...PUEBLO DOPLLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTHERN PUEBLO AND NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN THE TOWN
OF RYE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH< OF THESE STORMS...EXPECT PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...OCCASIONAL DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND
HAIL 1/2 INCH OR SMALLER IN DIAMETER.

MOORE

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 6:20 PM MDT, 1 minute before

COZ078-130125-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
619 PM MDT WED JUN 12 1996

...DEVELOPING STORMS IN CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...

AT 615 PM...PUEBLO DOPLLER RADAR INDICATED A PAIR OF DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE TOWN OF EADS IN CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY. ONE STORM
WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS. THE SECOND STORM WAS 6 MILES NORTHWEST
OF EADS...AND IS EXPECTED MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 287 AND EADS BY 645 PM.
BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...LOOK FOR PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAIN...HAIL 1/2 INCH OR SMALLER IN DIAMETER...OCCASIONAL DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH.

MOORE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.