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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 26, 1992Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1992, 4:45 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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: Jun 26, 1992, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1992, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 5:00 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Pueblo, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 262245
TORPUB
COC101-262315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
445 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF COLORADO
      EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...BOONE AND
AVONDALE.

AT 440 PM A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 10 MILES SOUTH OF
AVONDALE IN PUEBLO COUNTY 15 SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAIL[ABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

 CASEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	56 min
Jun 26, 1:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	41 min
Jun 26, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	59 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.