Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1996, 5:18 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 10, 1996, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1996, 6:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 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 23:21 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 10, 5:20 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Monument, 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 102318
SVRPUB
COC041-110020-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
518 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 620 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
MONUMENT BY 520 PM MDT
FALCON BY 545 PM MDT
* AT 518 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM IN THE VICINITY OF MONUMENT
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.
JKWhat 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 10, 11:45 AM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
COZ060>081-110600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1144 AM MDT WED JUL 10 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 IS MOIST. UPSLOPE FLOW FROM THE EAST WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND MAY EVEN STRENGTHEN SOME LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE CLOUDS BREAKING UP OVER THE PLAINS AND SKIES ALREADY MOSTLY CLEAR OVER THE ADJACENT MOUNTAINS...HEATING WILL CAUSE SCATTERED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. > YESTERDAYS RAINFALL HAS SATURATED THE GROUND FROM THE COLORADO SPRINGS AREA TO PUEBLO. THIS CORRIDOR WILL BE ESPECIALLY PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD HEAVY RAIN FALL IN THAT CORRIDOR AGAIN. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS INTO THE PLAINS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THE SCATTERED STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... ISOLATED HIGH WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY MIDAFTERNOON...PRIMARILY FOR RAIN REPORTS...AND PERHAPS FOR ISOLATED REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER. TLM
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:57 PM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
COZ066-074-075-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1257 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE VICINTIY OF BONCARBO BY 115 PM MDT...AND INTO THE VICINTY OF JANSEN BY 130 PM MDT. OTHER STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 12 THROUGH 140 PM MDT. THESE STORMS LIKELY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. AT 1255 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM LOCATED 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF BONCARBO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY. DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES... GET INDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE STORM...WHERE IT IS NOT R`AINING AND WHERE YOU MAY BE.
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:44 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
COZ066-074-075-102050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 144 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN TO THE SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS...ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF CUCHARA AND GULNARE...NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. AT 142 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM NEARLY STATIONARY 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD. RADAR ESTIMATES OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THAT AREA BETWEEN 1240 AND 140 PM MDT. THIS AREA HAS SEVERAL NARROW CANYONS THAT MAY FILL WITH WATER QUICKLY. CAMPERS IN THE AREA SHOULD PREPARE TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 5:08 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
COZ072-110010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 508 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN TO NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF PALMER LAKE AND MONUMENT THROUGH 550 PM MDT. AT 507 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONUMENT MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND HEAVY RAINFALL. "7"
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 5:10 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
COZ072-110010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...RESENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 508 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY... A THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN TO NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF PALMER LAKE AND MONUMENT THROUGH 550 PM MDT. AT 507 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONUMENT MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME WILL PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 50 MPH AND HEAVY RAINFALL. "7"
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 2 hr |
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.