Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1996, 7:32 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min. 4 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, 7:32 PM MDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1996, 8:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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 23, 7:37 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | Lamar, CO | |
| Jul 23, 7:44 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Granada, CO | |
| Jul 23, 8:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Holly, CO | |
| Jul 23, 8:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Holly, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 240132
TORPUB
COC099-240205-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
732 PM MDT TUE JUL 23 1996
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 805 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LAMAR...KORNMAN AND WILEY
* AT 630 PM MDT COLOADO STATE PATROL REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN...7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR. THE STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT 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, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| 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, 7:52 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 |
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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.