Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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 9, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1996, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 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 22:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 4:32 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Fountain, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 092225
SVRPUB
COC041-092315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
425 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 515 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OPEN COUNTRY SOUTHEAST OF FOUNTAIN
* AT 424 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
FOUNTAIN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH4 IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
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, Jul 9, 11:41 AM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
COZ060>081-100600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1140 AM MDT TUE JUL 9 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 THE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION REMAINS MOIST TODAY. HOWEVER...COOL AIR AND UPSLOPE FLOW MAY KEEP THUNDERSTORMS FROM FORMING UNTIL LATER THIS AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...HELPING TO GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. FOR NOW...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS LOW IF ENOUGH CLOUDS KEEP HEATING OF THE AIRMASS NEAR GROUND LEVEL TO A MINIMUM. SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT EXPECTED AT THISt TIME...BUT ANY HEAVY RAIN REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD BE WELCOMED. TLM
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
COZ067-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 139 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996 ...STRONG STORMS DEVELOPING OVER TELLER COUNTY... A LINE OF STORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 24 WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN FLORISSANT AND CASCADE BETWEEN 130 AND 215 PM MDT. THE STRONGEST STORM WILL MOVE IN THE VICINITY OF CRYSTOLA AND GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS BETWEEN 145 AND 200 PM MDT. THESE STORMS COULD BRING SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGNTNING. AT 135 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM 5 MILES WEST OF CRYSTOLA...MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE OR WALK INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. FAST FLOWING WATER ONE AND A HALF FEET DEEP CAN EASILY FLIP A VEHICLE OVER OR CARRY IT DOWN A CREEK OR RIVER. WHETHER ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE...FIND HIGHER GROUND DURING HIGH WATER SITUATIONS. KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING WATER. KT
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
COZ067-092105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 216 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996 THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER PIKES PEAK IN THE AREA OF TELLER COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE VICINITY OF CASCADE AND MANITOU SPRINGS BETWEEN 2:15 AND 2:30 PM THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE SMALL STREAM FLOODING AROUND THE AREA. AT 2:12 PM THESE STORMS WERE 3 MILES WEST OF MANITOU SPRINGS MOVINdG EAST AT 5 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.