Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1996, 5:57 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 3 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, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1996, 7:00 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 23:58 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, 6:05 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Pueblo, CO | |
| Jul 9, 6:05 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Pueblo, CO | |
| Jul 9, 6:30 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | 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, 12.0 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.
- 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 1:40 PM MDT, 4 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, 3 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, 1 hour 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, 4:57 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.