Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1996, 5:52 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 30, 1996, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1996, 6:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 23:56 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 30, 6:11 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Haswell, 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, 11.9 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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 60 min |
| Jul 29, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 62 min |
| Jul 29, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 1:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 2:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 49 min |
| Jul 30, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 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.