Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 4:52 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1996, 4:52 PM MDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 5:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:55 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Campo, CO | |
| Jun 23, 5:23 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Campo, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 232253
SVRPUB
COC009-232340-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
452 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 540 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
THROUGH RANCHLAND
* AT 452 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 6 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CAMPO
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
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 23, 12:21 PM MDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
COZ060>081-240600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1220 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 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 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: CROWLEY...OTERO...KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS...AND BACA ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THESE COUNTIES MAY PRODUCE HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND/OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. AN RATHER MOIST AND SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE NEAR THE COLORADO/KANSAS BORDER AND THIS IN COMBINATION WITH THE DAILY HEATING REGIME WILL ALLOW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THIS AREA...GENERALLY AFTER 3 PM MDT. THUNDERSTORMS ELSEWHERE ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOTt ANTICIPATED.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:49 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
COZ081-232325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 448 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM...LIKELY PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...HAIL AROUND 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL MOVE THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHEAST BACA COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM MDT. THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMPO AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. TLM
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.