Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 7:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 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 250046
SVRPUB
COC071-250120-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
645 PM MDT FRI MAY 24 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 720 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
HIGHWAY 109 BY 645 PM
OVER OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF HIGHWAY 109 BY 700 PM
* AT 645 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES NORTH OF KIM 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.
KTWhat 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, 5:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 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.