Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1996, 3:19 PM MDT for Custer County, Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 12, 1996, 3:19 PM MDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 4:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 3:38 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Canon City, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 122119
SVRPUB
COC027-043-122220-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
319 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 420 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
FLORENCE BY 325 PM
WETMORE BY 340 PM
GREENWOOD BY 340 PM
* AT 317 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANON CITY
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
KTWhat 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, 3 hours 38 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, 2 hours 48 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, 2 hours 26 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
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:10 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
COZ068-070-071-073-074-122215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 310 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996 ...STRONG STORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM PUNKIN CENTER ACROSS SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY AND NORTHERN FREMONT COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT CANON CITY BY 320 PM...HIGHWAY 50 WEST OF CANON CITY BY 320 PM...AND NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY INCLUDING I-25 BETWEEN 320 AND 400 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STORMS WILL MOVE INTO WALSENBURG BY 330 PM. THESE STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. ALL THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN AFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. KT
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, 12:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 47 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, 3:27 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.