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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 1996Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1996, 5:00 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 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 31, 1996, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 5:25 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 5:00 PM MDTTornado F0Sheridan Lake, CO
May 31, 5:05 PM MDTTornado F0Sheridan Lake, CO
May 31, 5:20 PM MDTTornado F0Chivington, 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 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 312259
TORPUB
COC061-312325-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
500 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 525 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    CHIVINGTON BY 515 PM

* AT 455 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN
CHIVINGTON AND SHERIDAN LAKE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH.




A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS( ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER
SITUATION WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

MM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 min
May 31, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 min
May 31, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa62 min
May 31, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa31 min
May 31, 5:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers33 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.