Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 3:55 PM MDT for Pueblo 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
- Jul 5, 1996, 3:55 PM MDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1996, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 052155
SVRPUB
COC101-052230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
355 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 430 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OPEN COUNTRY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 BY 400 PM
* AT 355 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 7 MILES WEST OF FOWLER MOVING
EAST AT 20 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, Jul 5, 11:34 AM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
COZ060>081-060600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1133 AM MDT FRI JUL 5 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 WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT WILL SUPPRESS WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ONLY ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE MOUNTAINS...ALONG MONUMENT RIDGE AND THE RATON MESA WITH A FEW STORMS OVER THE PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...BUT LIMITED AMOUNTS OF RAIN. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. BEWARE OF ANOTHER HOT DAY WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THE LOWER: ELEVATIONS OF THE PLAINS REACHING AS HIGH AS 105 DEGREES. AREAS NEAR THE MOUNTAINS AND PALMER DIVIDE MAY BE A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN YESTERDAY WITH MORE CLOUD COVER DUE TO A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM FORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
COZ071-072-052025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 119 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRING SMALL HAIL TO THE PIKES PEAK REGION... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING BRIEF RAINSHOWERS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING TO THE TOWNS OF PEYTON...FALCON...CALHAN AND RAMAH BETWEEN 120 AND 2 PM MDT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY AND NORTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN 120 AND 2 PM MDT. AT 110 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PUEBLO SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PEYTON AND FALCON MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS A MILE OR TWO NORTHWEST OF THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
COZ062>064-052110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 205 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF SAN LUIS VALLEY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL TO THE TOWN OF SAGUACHE BETWEEN 2 AND 230 PM MDT AND TO MOFFAT BETWEEN 230 AND 3PM MDT. AT 2 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT PUEBLO SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES WEST AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAGUACHE MOVIN6G EAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR ESITMATED THAT .25 TO .50 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS IN ONE HOUR. LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO ACOMPANY THESE STORMS. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:22 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
COZ067-071>073-052125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 222 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PIKES PEAK REGION AND ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDOR... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER THE COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO AREAS BETWEEN 220 AND 3PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL BRING ONLY SMALL AMOUNTS OF RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. LIGHTENING WILL BE FREQUENT WITH THE STORMS AND A FEW MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE PEYTON AREA AROUND 140 PM MDT. AT 215 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT PUEBLO SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDIR FROM MONUMENT RIDGE TO SOUTH OF PUEBLO. THESEj STORMS WERE FORMING ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 THEN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:13 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
COZ068-073-052215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 312 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN FREMONT AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY AND THROUGH WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH 340 PM MDT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT 305 PM A THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO IN PUEBLO COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF COALDALE IN FREMONT COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:36 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
COZ073-052240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 336 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 355 PM MDT AND WILL THEN MOVE INTO CROWLEY AND NORTHWEST OTERO COUNTIES. AT 330 PM A THUNDERSTORM WAS 17 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO ALONG HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN BOONE AND FOWLER. ANOTHER STORM WAS OVER OPEN COU&NTRY IN NORTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH SHOULD BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 48 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.