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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 1989Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1989, 3:58 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1989, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1989, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo 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

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1989-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1989-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
3229 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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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.