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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 24, 1996Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1996, 4:12 PM MDT for Las Animas 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: Jun 24, 1996, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1996, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
Jun 24, 4:15 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Thatcher, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 242212
TORPUB
COC071-242245-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
412 PM MDT MON JUN 24 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 410 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO BETWEEN THATCHER
AND DELHI...ALONG HIGHWAY 350.

THE DEVELOPING TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.

GRAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 2:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	44 min
Jun 24, 2:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	58 min
Jun 24, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	65 min
Jun 24, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	50 min
Jun 24, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	66 min
Jun 24, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
Jun 24, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	65 min
Jun 24, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	49 min
Jun 24, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	50 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.