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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 7, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 2:49 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
Jul 7, 1996, 2:49 PM MDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1996, 3:20 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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
Jul 7, 2:55 PM MDTHail 1Peyton, CO
Jul 7, 3:10 PM MDTHail 1Ellicott, CO
Jul 7, 3:22 PM MDTHail 1Yoder, 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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 072049
TORPUB
COC041-072120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
249 PM MDT SUN JUL 7 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY      IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 320 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEYTON CROSSING HIGHWAY 24

* AT 245 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PEYTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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

SC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 2:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso63 min
Jul 7, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
Jul 7, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso50 min
Jul 7, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley25 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.