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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 1996Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1996, 5:37 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
May 31, 1996, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 6:10 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 5:40 PM MDTTornado F0Granada, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 405 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 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 312337
TORPUB
COC099-010010-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
537 PM MDT FRI MAY 31 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 610 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50
    POSSIBLY AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF HARTMAN AND BRISTOL

* AT 535 PM RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED TORNADOES 15 MILES
NORTnHEAST OF GRANADA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

MM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 min
May 31, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 min
May 31, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa62 min
May 31, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa25 min
May 31, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa31 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.