Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1996, 1:11 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. 4 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 12, 1996, 1:11 PM MDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado F1 | Divide, CO | |
| Jul 12, 1:39 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Woodland Park, CO | |
| Jul 12, 1:47 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Divide, CO | |
| Jul 12, 2:00 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Woodland Park, 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPUB 121911
TORPUB
COC119-122000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
111 PM MDT FRI JUL 12 1996
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
TELLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 200 PM MDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
WOODLAND PARK BY 120 PM
DIVIDE BY 120 PM
* AT 110 PM RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
DIVIDE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER
SITUATION WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.
KTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 78 min |
| Jul 11, 10:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 12:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 1:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jul 12, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 4:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 118 min |
| Jul 12, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 47 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.