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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 5, 1992Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1992, 3:52 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1992, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1992, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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 1992-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 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 1992-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 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
96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 052152
TORPUB
COC009-099-052230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
352 PM MDT FRI JUN 5 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS IS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo39 min
Jun 5, 2:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley43 min
Jun 5, 2:46 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, Kiowa, Otero19 min
Jun 5, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Prowers57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.