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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 30, 1996Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1996, 2:06 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1996, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1996, 2:55 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Bent County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 1996-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1996-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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 302007
TORPUB
COC011-302055-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
206 PM MDT TUE JUL 30 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 255 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEAST BENT COUNTY 15 MILES EAST OF
    TOONERVILLE

* AT 205 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES EAST OF
  TOONERVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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

LW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent60 min
Jul 29, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca62 min
Jul 29, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca63 min
Jul 30, 1:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBProwers3 hr
Jul 30, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca60 min
Jul 30, 5:52 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.