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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1994, 3:24 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1994, 3:24 PM MDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1994, 3:41 PM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 272126 TORPUB COC011-061-272200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 324 PM MDT WED JUL 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHWESTERN BENT COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY ...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF ARLINGTON AND CORNELIA. ...AT 320 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST KIOWA COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHWEST 25 TO 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 2:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
COZ047-067-071-272120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 217 PM MDT WED JUL 27 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO BUILD OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... AT 215PM MDT LIMON RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING OVER TELLER COUNTY..ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY WITH THE STRONGEST ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON ON THE BORDER OF SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AND CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND SOME MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED. CROWLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 3:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 4:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| Jul 27, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 42 min |
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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.