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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 12, 1996Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1996, 7:05 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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, 7:05 PM MDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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, 7:25 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Kim, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 1200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 130105
SVRPUB
COC071-130210-

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 810 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    KIM BY 715 PM

* AT 704 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 6 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF KIM
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE ST*ORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

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

JK/SR

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, 3:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 55 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, 2 hours 25 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

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:56 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

COZ073-130045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
550 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996

...HEAVY RAINS ADDED TO THE ALREADY SATURATED CITY OF PUEBLO...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS PASSED ACROSS THE CITY OF PUEBLO AND
DEPOSITED MORE RAIN IN AN HOURS TIME TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS.

FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE RAINFALL REPORTS RECEIVED AROUND 515 PM:

    -  A BAND FROM PUEBLO WEST TO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY OF
       PUEBLO WAS FROM 0.45 TO 0.60 OF AN INCH OF RAIN.
    -  NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO  0.93 OF AN INCH.
    -  EAST CENTRAL PART OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO  1.10 INCHES.
    -  SOUTHEAST PUEBLO...SAINT CHARLES MESA...EAST SIDE OF BLENDE  1.25
 \        INCHES.
    -  AT PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT  0.78 OF AN INCH.
    -  7 MILES EAST OF THE AIRPORT 0.73 OF AN INCH.

CASEY

Local storm report, Jul 12, 6:42 PM MDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
625 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996

TIME(MDT)  ...CITY LOCATION...     STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ..COUNTY LOCATION..

1259 PM    WEST CREEK                CO   HAIL .75
           TELLER

116  PM    5N DIVIDE                 CO   TORNADO - MANY TREES DOWN
           TELLER

139  PM    WOODLAND PARK             CO   HAIL .75
           TELLER

147 PM     1S DIVIDE                 CO   HAIL 1.0 INCH
           TELLER

155 PM     MANITOU SPRINGS           CO   HAIL .75/HEAVY RAIN
           EL PASO

200 PM     WOODLAND PARK             CO   STREET FLOODING
           TELLER                         HAIL 8 INCH DEEP

325 PM     SECURITY                  CO   STREET FLOODING
           EL PASO

338 PM     5S CANON CITY             CO   WIND GUST 60 MPH
           FREMONT                        HEAVY RAIN/FLOODING

450 PM     3S CHERA                  CO   HAIL 1.75 INCH
           OTERO

545 PM     1.5N LUBER                CO   HAIL .75 INCH
           BENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 1:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jul 13, 3:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 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.