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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 29, 1996Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1996, 5:26 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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: Aug 29, 1996, 5:26 PM MDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1996, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 29, 5:30 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Beulah, 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 292327
TORPUB
COC101-300030-

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF BEULAH

* AT 525 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF BEULAH MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

A FOLLOW 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.

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, 3:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	29 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, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	62 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.