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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 1994Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 10:14 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1994, 10:14 PM MDT (04:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1994, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 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.

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: 365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 100414
TORPUB
COC061-100515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1014 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...KIOWA COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC STORM OVER EXTREME EASTERN
KIOWA COUNTY...WITH ANOTHER TORNADIC STORM LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL
KIOWA COUNTY. ALSO ANOTHER STORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST KIOWA COUNTY.
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
AT 1007 PM MDT A SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE TOWN OF
SHERIDAN LAKE.
 
 
 
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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON8 CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
Jun 9, 9:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	59 min
Jun 9, 9:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	61 min
Jun 9, 10:17 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	43 min
Jun 9, 10:37 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Otero	38 min
Jun 9, 10:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	69 min
Jun 9, 11:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	53 min
Jun 9, 11:17 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	28 min
Jun 9, 11:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	50 min
Jun 9, 11:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	56 min
Jun 10, 12:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	46 min
Jun 10, 2:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	15 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.