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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 26, 1996Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 1:20 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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: May 26, 1996, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 2:25 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
May 26, 1:45 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Lamar, CO
May 26, 2:00 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Holly, CO
May 26, 2:02 PM MDT	Hail 1	Holly, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 261921
SVRPUB
COC099-262025-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
120 PM MDT SUN MAY 26 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 225 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    WILEY BY 130 PM
    HIGHWAY 287 THROUGH 200 PM
    HIGHWAY 50 WEST OF LAMAR THROUGH 145 PM

* AT 120 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES WEST OF LAMAR
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

PE

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, May 26, 11:45 AM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

COZ076-077-261950-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1145 AM MDT SUN MAY 26 1996

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN OTERO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS
COUNTIES...

THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT OTERO AND EASTERN
LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES THROUGH 1 PM.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE
VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND WIND
GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH.

AT 1143 AM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM ABOUT 20 MILES
NORTH OF KIM.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  THE STORMS
WILL BE IN THE LA JUNTA VICINITY BY NOON.

Special weather statement, May 26, 12:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

COZ060>081-270600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1207 PM MDT SUN MAY 26 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

SYNOPSIS:  A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN COLORADO BY
LATE AFTERNOON THEN INTO WESTERN KANSAS BY MIDNIGHT.

ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE AFTERNOON...THEN THE STORMS WILL
DECREASE IN COVERAGE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

IN THE MOUNTAINS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS
AFTERNOON.  THE SNOW LEVEL WILL BE AROUND 7500 FEET.  ABOVE THIS LEVEL
...LOCAL ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES WILL OCCUR...
PRIMARILY IN TELLER COUNTY.

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...GENERALLY ALONG AND
EAST OF INTERSTATE 25...WILL BE STRONG THIS AFTERNOON.  THE MAIN
THREATS WILL BE SMALL HAIL UNDER THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH...WIND
GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL OCCUR EAST OF
A LINE FROM LIMON TO TRINIDAD.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS
AFTERNOON...PRODUCING HAIL OVER 3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER.

STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT IN MOST AREAS
AS THE STORM SYSTEM STRENGTHENS IN KANSAS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	59 min
May 26, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	35 min
May 26, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	65 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.