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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 24, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 2:36 AM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 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 24, 1996, 2:36 AM MDT (08:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1996, 3:20 AM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 388 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jun 23, 10:09 PM MDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 2:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	58 min
Jun 24, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	65 min
Jun 24, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	50 min
Jun 24, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	66 min
Jun 24, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
Jun 24, 4:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	33 min
Jun 24, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	65 min
Jun 24, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	49 min
Jun 24, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996 Every 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.