Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 12:24 PM MDT for Saguache 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 21, 1996, 12:24 PM MDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1996, 1:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1051 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 211824
SVRPUB
COC109-211910-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1224 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SAGUACHE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST COLORADO
* UNTIL 110 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
SAGUACHE BY 1235
VILLA GROVE BY 1240
MINERAL HOT SPRINGS BY 1245
* AT 1220 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 15 MILES WEST OF SAGUACHE
ALONG HWY 114 MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WINDS OVER 60 MPH.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
BFWhat 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 21, 12:07 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
COZ060>081-220600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1155 AM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO AS OF 1130 AM. THIS ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD EASTWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ARE STILL EXPECTED TO BE MOST NUMEROUS AND STRONG OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO AND ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJOINING PLAINS AS WELL AS ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE...WITH FEWER THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS. RADAR DERIVED WIND PROFILES THIS MORNING SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE PLAINS OVER EL PASO... PUEBLO...FREMONT AND TELLER COUNTIES...ALLOWING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS IN THIS AREA. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...MAINLY ALONG AND NEAR THE PALMER DIVIDE INCLUDING THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA AND AREAS WESTWARD TO THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. ELSEWHERE...THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. SINCE THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE QUITE ISOLATED...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER...REPORTS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL WILL BE APPRECIATED. HAYNES
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:08 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
COZ060>081-220600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1205 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES: ALAMOSA BACA BENT CHAFFEE CONEJOS COSTILLA CROWLEY CUSTER EL PASO FREMONT HUERFANO KIOWA LAS ANIMAS MINERAL OTERO PROWERS PUEBLO RIO GRANDE SAGUACHE TELLER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO AS OF 1130 AM. THIS ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD EASTWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ARE STILL EXPECTED TO BE MOST NUMEROUS AND STRONG OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO AND ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJOINING PLAINS AS WELL AS ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE...WITH FEWER THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS. RADAR DERIVED WIND PROFILES THIS MORNING SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE PLAINS OVER EL PASO... PUEBLO...FREMONT AND TELLER COUNTIES...ALLOWING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS IN THIS AREA. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...MAINLY ALONG AND NEAR THE PALMER DIVIDE INCLUDING THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA AND AREAS WESTWARD TO THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. ELSEWHERE...THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. SINCE THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE QUITE ISOLATED...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER...REPORTS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL WILL BE APPRECIATED. HAYNES
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:13 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
COZ060>063-211920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1213 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN TO SAGUACHE COUNTY BETWEEN NOON AND 2 PM MDT. AT NOON A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR NORTH PASS IN WESTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF SAGUACHE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE PART OF STORM WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 114 AND SHOULD PASS JUST NORTH OF THE TOWN OF SAGUACHE AROUND 1230 PM MDT AND TO NEAR THE TOWN OF BONANZA BY 1245 PM MDT. FORTUNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 47 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.