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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 25, 1996Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1996, 3:03 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 25, 1996, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1996, 4:05 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -408 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 252103
SVRPUB
COC089-252205-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
303 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 405 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    ROCKY FORD BY 310 PM

* AT 302 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKY
  FORD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

KT

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

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

COZ074-251920-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1215 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN HUERFANO COUNTY...

A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE IN THE VICINITY OF WALSENBURG BY
1230 PM MDT...BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH.

AT 1210 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF
WALSENBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN
OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET
INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY
FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS
CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

KT

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

COZ060>081-260600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1217 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 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:

EL PASO...PUEBLO...HUERFANO...LAS ANIMAS...CROWLEY...OTERO...
KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS AND BACA

COMPUTER GENERATED PROFILES OF ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES AND
MOISTURE INDICATE CONDUCIVE CONDITIONS FOR STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS.  ABUNDANT
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE IN PLACE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE
SOUTHEAST PLAINS WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 50S AND 60S.  DAYTIME
HEATING ACTING ON THIS MOISTURE SUPPLY...ALONG WITH ADEQUATE
INSTABILITY WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
SOUTHEAST PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING
3/4 INCH OR LARGER DIAMETER HAIL AND/OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.  LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED
FLOODING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO AREAS MAY
BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL AS LARGE PORTIONS OF EASTERN
COLORADO BASICALLY ALONG AND EAST OF I-25.

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

COZ073-074-252030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
127 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 1996

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES OVER NORTHERN HUERFANO COUNTY AND IS
   EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 10 IN NORTHERN HUERFANO
COUNTY AND IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE HUERFANO/PUEBLO COUNTY LINE BY 135
PM MDT.

AT 127 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS STRONG STORM
WAS 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH
DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

JK

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

COZ075-252035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
146 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ALONG I-25 AND BE IN THE VICINITY OF
TRINIDAD BY 210 PM MDT.  THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS
UP TO 40 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME VERY SMALL HAIL.

AT 244 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH
OF TRINIDAD...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN
OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET
INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY
FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT RAINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.

KT

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:27 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

COZ076-077-252130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
225 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTH-CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS
   COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 350 OVER
MAINLY OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTH-CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 250 PM
MDT AND THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY THROUGH 320 PM MDT.

AT 225 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF DELHI.  THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 5/8
INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

JK

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.