Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1996, 5:33 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 6:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 122333
SVRPUB
COC089-130020-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
533 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 620 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LA JUNTA BY 545 PM
HIGHWAY 109 SOUTH OF LA JUNTA BY 545 PM
* AT 531 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS JUST NORTHWEST OF LA
JUNTA...WITH ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA
AND ANOTHER 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA MOVING EAST 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.
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, 5 hours 52 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, 5 hours 2 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, 4 hours 40 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, 2 hours 23 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
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:40 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
COZ076-122345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 440 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CROWLEY COUNTY... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING STRONG WINDS...GUSTING TO 55 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL TO OLNEY SPRINGS...CROWLEY...ORDWAY AND SUGAR CITY BY 515 PM MDT. AT 437 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STORMS EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES WEST OF ORDWAY TO 21 MILE&S NORTHEAST OF ORDWAY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE STANDING WATER ON HIGHWAY 96 IN CROWLEY COUNTY AND HIGHWAY 50 IN OTERO COUNTY BETWEEN 435 AND 530 PM. 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, 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, 3:27 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.