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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 12, 1996El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1996, 3:27 PM MDT for El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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 12, 1996, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties El Paso County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 122127
SVRPUB
COC041-101-122225-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
327 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 425 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 335 PM MDT
    ALONG I-25 AND WESTWARD OVER OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY
    THROUGH 400 PM
    PINON BY 345 PM MDT

* AT 325 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  PUEBLO EXTENDING WESTWARD TO 18 MILES NORTH OF PUEBLO MOVING
  SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

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

KT

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, Jul 12, 11:41 AM MDT, 3 hours 46 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 56 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 34 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, 17 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, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.