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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 29, 1996El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1996, 3:16 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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: Aug 29, 1996, 3:16 PM MDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1996, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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
Aug 29, 3:30 PM MDT	Hail 2.75	Colorado Spgs, CO
Aug 29, 3:54 PM MDT	Hail 1	Manitou Spgs, 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

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 292116
TORPUB
COC041-119-292145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
316 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  EASTERN TELLER COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    EASTERN TELLER COUNTY NORTH OF PIKES PEAK

* AT 312 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  WOODLAND PARK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER
MOUNTAIN AREAS EAST OF PIKES PEAK. IT WILL PASS ACROSS CATAMOUNT
RESERVOIRS AND CRYSTAL CREEK RESERVOIR.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
 WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.

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

BF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 2:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	62 min
Aug 29, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	30 min
Aug 29, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	33 min
Aug 29, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	60 min
Aug 29, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	61 min
Aug 29, 5:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Pueblo	64 min
Aug 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	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.