Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 5:53 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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, 5:53 PM MDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1996, 6:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 536 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 212354
SVRPUB
COC009-099-220040-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
553 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NORTHERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 640 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
GRANADA BY 600 PM
HOLLY BY 620 PM
SPRINGFIELD BY 600 PM
TWO BUTTES BY 610 PM
* AT 547 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS NEAR LAMAR AND 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A WIND GUST TO 58
MPH WAS RECORDED AT THE LAMAR AIRPORT AS THE STORM PASSED THROUGH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
TMWhat 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, 3:38 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
COZ076>079-212215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 338 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...TORNADO WAATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM MDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO LA JUNTA AND LAS ANIMAS BETWEEN 340 AND 410 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. AT 330 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA TO 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF THATCHER MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 70 MPH IN THE PINON CANYON AREA SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA AT 255 PM MDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FOR CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNlTIL 8 PM FOR NORTHERN OTERO...NORTHERN BENT...CROWLEY AND KIOWA COUNTIES. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
COZ073-212220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 344 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST PUEBLO BY 350 PM MDT BRINGING SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH. AT 335 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO PUEBLO. EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED A WIND GUST OF 36 MPH IN PUEBLO WEST AND TO 39 MPH AT PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE GENERALLY .30 OR LESS IN THE PUEBLO AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING. PLEASE GO INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE AREA. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
COZ076>081-212245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 409 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO LAS ANIMAS BY 430 PM BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50. AT 4 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LA JUNTA TO 10 MILES WEST OF KIM MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 355 PM MDT PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF LA JUNTA ALONG WITH SOME STRONG WINDS. HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE WATER TO ACCUMULATE IN LOW LYING AREAS ESPECIALLY ALONG HIGHWAY 50 NEAR LA JUNTA AN?D LAS ANIMAS. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:16 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
COZ060>081-212350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 516 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BENT...KIOWA AND NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM MDT... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MOST OF THE WATCH AREA EXCEPT FOR THE COUNTIES MENTIONED ABOVE. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING STRONG WIND GUSTS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL TO THE CITIES OF EADS...LAMAR AND SPRINGFIELD BETWEEN 515 PM MDT AND 6 PM MDT. AT 515 PM MDT THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR HASWELL TO 10 MILES WEST OF LAMAR TO 15 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUS8TS TO 40 MPH WERE REPORTED BY A SPOTTER IN HASWELL AT 5 PM MDT. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:30 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
COZ080-081-220035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 529 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM MDT FOR NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO PROWERS AND BACA COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM BRINGING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. AT 520 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR EXTENDING SOUTH TO AROUND 15 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAYNES
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:45 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
COZ062-063-065-220035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 544 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ALAMOSA AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM...BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. AT 530 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALAMOSA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL MONUMENT AREA BY 600 PM. HAYNES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 12:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 64 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.