Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT for Custer County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1996, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 110200
SVRPUB
COC027-110300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
800 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 900 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
WESTCLIFFE BY 815 PM MDT
* AT 800 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WESTCLIFFE MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
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, 5:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
COZ067-068-110045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 540 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN TELLER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN DIVIDE AND CRIPPLE CREEK AND WILL BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL TO THE AREA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST TOWARD CRIPPLE CREEK AND VICTOR BY AROUND 6 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION WHILE DRIVING IN THE AREA DUE TO POOR VIS IBILITY AND SLIPPERY..WET ROADS.
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:00 PM MDT, 2 hours before
COZ067-071-072-110045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 559 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 620 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS BETWEEN 600 PM AND 630 PM MDT BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. AT 559 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 3/4 INCH DIAMETER OR LARGER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. JK |
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
COZ071-110135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 633 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN COLORADO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF FORT CARSON THROUGH 700 PM MDT. AT 633 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR UPDATES ON THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. JK
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
COZ069-110200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 655 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN TO WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY...IN THE MOUNTAINS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN 7 AND 730 PM. THIS HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE ROCKS TO SLIDE ALONG THE HIGHWAY BETWEEN ROYAL GORGE AND SALIDA. AT 650 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF SALIDA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED .5 TO .75 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN 550 AND 650 PM MDT. MOTORISTS ON HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN CANON CITY AND SALIDA SHOULD WATCH FOR HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE ROCK AND MUD SLIDES. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 7:02 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
COZ073-110205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 702 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE DRIVING HAZARDS ALONG HIGHWAY 115... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR PENROSE BY 715 PM MDT BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT 655 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 115 BETWEEN PENROSE AND FORT CARSON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A STORM OF THIS TYPE COULD PRODUCE SOME HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITI2ONS IN THE STEEP TERRAIN AND NARROW CANYONS ALONG HIGHWAY 115. THE STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 50 WEST EAST OF PENROSE BY 715 PM MDT. FORTUNE
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 7:41 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
COZ065-068-070-110245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 741 PM MDT WED JUL 10 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN FREMONT COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN FREMONT COUNTY AND NORTHERN CUSTER AND SAGUACHE COUNTIES SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 THROUGH 815 PM MDT. AT 740 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COALDALE AND 5 MILES EAST OF COTOPAXI IN FREMONT COUNTY. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND MAY PRODUCE 1/2 INCH DIAMETER OR SMALLER HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 55 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.