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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 6, 1989Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1989, 4:13 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1989, 4:13 PM MDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1989, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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 1989-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 323 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 1989-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.