Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1996, 12:58 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 12, 1996, 12:58 PM MDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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 12, 12:59 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | West Creek, CO | |
| Jul 12, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado F1 | Divide, CO | |
| Jul 12, 1:39 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Woodland Park, CO | |
| Jul 12, 1:47 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Divide, 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPUB 121857
SVRPUB
COC119-121945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1258 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
TELLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 145 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
NORTH OF US-24 ACROSS NORTHEAST TELLER COUNTY
NEAR WOODLAND PARK BY 130 PM
* AT 1256 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WOODLAND PARK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
BFWhat 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 12, 11:41 AM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
COZ060>081-130600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1140 AM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO C
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:31 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
COZ074-075-077-121935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1232 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF TRINIDAD... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 160 WEST OF TRINIDAD THROUGH 100 PM AND POSSIBLY AFFECT JANSEN...TRINIDAD AND STARKVILLE BETWEEN 1245 AND 100 PM MDT. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. STREAM BEDS...ROADWAYS...AND L~OW LYING AREAS MAY QUICKLY FILL WITH WATER. AT 1230 PM MDT PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. KT/SR
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:53 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
COZ067-071-072-122000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1253 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD COLORADO SPRINGS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TO THE PALMER LAKE AND MONUMENT AREA BETWEEN 1 AND 130 PM MDT. HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE STORM WILL CROSS I-25 NEAR THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY BY 110 PM MDT. AT 1250 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. HAIL ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED FROM THIS STORM. FORTUNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 78 min |
| Jul 11, 10:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 1:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Teller | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 1:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jul 12, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 4:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 118 min |
| Jul 12, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 47 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.