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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 1994Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 10:37 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1994, 10:37 PM MDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1994, 11:15 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Otero County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 223 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 365 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1994-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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 100439
TORPUB
COC089-100515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1037 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
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY
 
AT 1034 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN EXTREME NORTHEAST
OTERO COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA.  MOVEMENT WAS
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
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.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa62 min
Jun 9, 9:16 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa59 min
Jun 9, 9:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley61 min
Jun 9, 10:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa61 min
Jun 9, 10:17 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley43 min
Jun 9, 10:51 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent69 min
Jun 9, 11:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers53 min
Jun 9, 11:17 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa28 min
Jun 9, 11:40 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent50 min
Jun 9, 11:49 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers56 min
Jun 10, 12:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca46 min
Jun 10, 2:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers15 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.