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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 24, 1996Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 1996, 6:39 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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 24, 1996, 6:39 PM MDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1996, 7:25 PM MDT
In force: 46 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 00:41 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 24, 6:47 PM MDT	Hail 2.5	Eads, 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, 0.7 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-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: 1208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 250039
TORPUB
COC061-250125-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
639 PM MDT WED JUL 24 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  WESTERN AND  CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 725 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96 BETWEEN EADS AND HASWELL

* AT 635 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST
  OF EADS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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

PW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	89 min
Jul 24, 7:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	60 min
Jul 24, 7:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	61 min
Jul 24, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	49 min
Jul 24, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	65 min
Jul 25, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	63 min
Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	35 min
Jul 25, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	34 min
Jul 25, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	64 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.