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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 1994Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1994, 10:51 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1994, 10:51 PM MDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1994, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Bent County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 100451
TORPUB
COC011-100600-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1051 PM MDT THU JUN 9 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...WESTERN BENT COUNTY
 
AT 1046 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES
NORTH-NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. MOVEMENT WAS TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...MOVING INTO NORTHWEST BENT COUNTY...
AND WILL LIKELY TRACK ACROSS THE TOWN OF LAS ANIMAS.
 
 
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.

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, 10:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	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, 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.