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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 13, 1996El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1996, 3:02 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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 13, 1996, 3:02 PM MDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1996, 3:50 PM MDT
In force
48 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 21:04 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 13, 3:04 PM MDTHail 0.75Calhan, CO
Jul 13, 3:30 PM MDTHail 0.75Ramah, 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, 9.0 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 1996-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 470 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 132102
TORPUB
COC041-132150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
302 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

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

* UNTIL 350 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTY SOUTH OF RAMAH AND NORTH OF RUSH THROUGH 320 PM

* AT 301 PM RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF RAMAH
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

SR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas65 min
Jul 13, 1:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 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.