Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 4:57 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1996, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:59 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Rocky Ford, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 052257
SVRPUB
COC089-052345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
457 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 545 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
ROCKY FORD BY 455 PM
LA JUNTA BY 515 PM
TIMPAS BY 515 PM
* AT 450 RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS NEAR ROCKY FORD OR 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA AND 17 MILES SOU0THWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING
SOUTHEAST 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, 5 hours 23 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, 3 hours 38 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, 2 hours 51 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, 2 hours 35 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, 1 hour 44 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, 1 hour 21 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, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.