Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 5:46 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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
- May 24, 1996, 5:46 PM MDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 6:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 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 23:49 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 242347
SVRPUB
COC041-250035-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
546 PM MDT FRI MAY 24 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 635 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OVER SOUTHWEST FORT CARSON BY 550 PM
* AT 540 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM OVER HIGHWAY 115...15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF FOUNTAIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
PEWhat 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, May 24, 12:22 PM MDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
COZ060>081-250600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1220 PM MDT FRI MAY 24 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 SYNOPSIS: MOIST USPLOPE FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. WITH SUFFICIENT AFTERNOON SUNSHINE...THIS AIRMASS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE RESULTING IN THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME CLEARING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN BACA. THIS CLEARING WILL SPEAD NORTH AND WEST DURING THE AFTERNOON INTO PROWERS...BENT AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. AS A RESULT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER BACA...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS...BENT AND PROWERS COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE EASTERN PLAINS THE CLOUDS WILL PERSIST HAMPERING DAYTIME HEATING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTROMS IN THESE AREAS WILL NOT BECOME SEVERE...UNLESS CLEARING DEVELOPS THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN BACA...BENT...PROWERS AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. WOLYN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING OVER EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. ADEQUATE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...SWIFT WINDS AND AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS MAY SPARK A FEW STRONG STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL PROBABLY NOT BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT STAY TUNED FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. > TLM
Special weather statement, May 24, 12:25 PM MDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
COZ060>081-250600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1225 PM MDT FRI MAY 24 1996...CORRECTED TO REMOVE TYPOS 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 SYNOPSIS: MOIST USPLOPE FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. WITH SUFFICIENT AFTERNOON SUNSHINE...THIS AIRMASS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE RESULTING IN THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME CLEARING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN BACA. THIS CLEARING WILL SPEAD NORTH AND WEST DURING THE AFTERNOON INTO PROWERS...BENT AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. AS A RESULT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER BACA...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS...BENT AND PROWERS COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE EASTERN PLAINS THE CLOUDS WILL PERSIST HAMPERING DAYTIME HEATING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTROMS IN THESE AREAS WILL NOT BECOME SEVERE...UNLESS CLEARING DEVELOPS THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN BACA...BENT...PROWERS AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. WOLYN
Special weather statement, May 24, 5:26 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ071>073-077-250030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 525 PM MDT FRI MAY 24 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE FOOTHILLS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EL PASO...PUEBLO...AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 640 PM MDT. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL AFFECT PUEBLO....I-25 BETWEEN PUEBLO AND COLORADO SPRINGS...AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY INCLUDING COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN 525 AND 550 PM MDT. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL BELOW 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...GUST WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...ESPECIALLY ALONG I-25 BETWEEN PINON AND FOUNTAIN. THIS CAN CbAUSE REDUCED VISIBILITIES...AND SLICK WET ROADS.
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.