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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 9, 1996Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1996, 4:57 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 4 reports 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, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 63 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 22:56 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
Jul 9, 5:37 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Pueblo, CO
Jul 9, 5:37 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Pueblo, CO
Jul 9, 6:05 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61	Pueblo, CO
Jul 9, 6:05 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Pueblo, 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 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 092258
SVRPUB
COC101-100000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
457 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    PUEBLO WEST BY 515 PM
    PINON BY 515 PM
    PUEBLO BY 530 PM

* AT 455 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS OVER FORT CARSON T0 10
NORTH OF PINON MOVING SOUTHEAST 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, Jul 9, 11:41 AM MDT, 5 hours 16 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, 3 hours 17 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 40 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.

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:37 PM MDT, 20 minutes before

COZ073-074-092340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
437 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND
WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND HEURFANO COUNTY...

AN AREA OF STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER HIGHWAY 115 IN THE VICINITY OF
PENROSE IN EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY BY 450 PM AND OVER PUEBLO WEST BY 515
PM. ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE OVER OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF COLORADO CITY
THROUGH 5 PM...WITH ANOTHER STORM CROSSING OVER HIGHWAY 10
NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURGH BY 500 PM.

AT 435 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS LOCATED 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CANON CITY...WITH ANOTHER 10 MILES EAST OF COLORADO
CITY...ANDD THE THIRD STORM 10 NMILES NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG.  ALL
STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

KT

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, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	50 min
Jul 9, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	63 min

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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.