Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 5:36 PM MDT for Prowers 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 15, 1996, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1996, 6:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 152337
SVRPUB
COC099-160040-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
536 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 640 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LAMAR THROUGH 600 PM
WILEY THROUGH 600 PM
* AT 536 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM NEAR LAMAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WI$TH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
SRWhat 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 15, 2:37 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
COZ073-152140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 236 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST FREMONT COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...BRINGING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ...WILL REACH FLORENCE AND PENROSE BY 245 PM. AT 230 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWS THE STORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF PENROSE TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PENROSE. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RADAR INDICATED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE BEAVER CREEK AREA NORTH OF PENROSE WITH RAINFALL RATES UP TO 1 INCH AN HOUR. WOLYN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
COZ073-152210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 312 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN PENROSE AND FLORENCE REGION... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WHICH HAS PASSED THROUGH THE FLORENCE AND PENROSE AREA HAS DUMPED OVER 1 INCH OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR. AT 300 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING JUST SOUTHWEST OF FLORENCE MOVING NORTHEAST. THIS STORM WILL DUMP ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL ON THE FLORENCE AND PENROSE AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SOME POOLING OF WATER IN PRAIRIES HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR PENROSE. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. THE ROADWAY OR PATHWAY MAY BE WASHED OUT...AND WATER COULD BE MUCH DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. KEEP CHILDREN AND OTHERS AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER AND STORM DRAINS...WHICH COULD BECOME DEADLY DURING HIGH WATER. WOLYN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
COZ073-076-077-152235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 328 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996 ...LINE OF STORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THROUGH 430 PM A LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL CROWLEY AND OTERO COUNTIES...AFFECTING THE CITY OF LA JUNTA. AT 325 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM 20 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF TRINIDAD. THE LNINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BRING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...OCCASIONAL DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
COZ073>081-152325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 419 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996 ...STORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 420 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO. SOME OF THE MORE INTENSE CELLS WERE LOCATED IN NEAR WALSENBURG...EAST OF TRINIDAD...AND SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE. THESE CELLS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR...HAIL 1/2 INCH OR LESS IN DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FOLLOW-UP STATEMENTS ON THESE DEVELOPING STORMS. MOORE
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:04 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
COZ076>080-160010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 504 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996 ...STORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 505 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND THE OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHERN OTERO...BENT...AND PROWERS COUNTIES. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF THATCHER TO NEAR LAMAR. THE STORMS WERE TRACKING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL TO AROUND 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS. MOORE
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:25 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
COZ080-160030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 525 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 1996 ...STORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO... AT 520 PM...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER LAMAR BETWEEN 525 AND 535 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO AROUND 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER AND GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM IS IN A LINE OF STORMS THAT PRODUCED .71 INCHES OF RAIN OVER WALSENBURG EARLIER THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS. MOORE
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.