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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 23, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1996, 6:06 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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: Jul 23, 1996, 6:06 PM MDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1996, 7:10 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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
Jul 23, 6:15 PM MDT	Hail 2.75	Peyton, CO
Jul 23, 6:16 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Calhan, CO
Jul 23, 7:08 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Eastonville, 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 240006 RRA
TORPUB
COC041-240110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
606 PM MDT TUE JUL 23 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 710 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    PEYTON AND CALHAN...BY 615 PM MDT

* AT 605 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
  PEYTON NEAR THE EL PASO COUNTY LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

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

RMG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
Jul 23, 6:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min
Jul 23, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
Jul 23, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	63 min
Jul 23, 7:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	47 min
Jul 23, 7:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	33 min
Jul 23, 7:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	48 min
Jul 23, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
Jul 23, 8:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	51 min
Jul 23, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	36 min
Jul 24, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	48 min
Jul 24, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	45 min
Jul 24, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 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.