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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 1995Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1995, 8:46 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1995, 8:46 PM MDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1995, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 080247
TORPUB
COC025-089-080315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
846 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...CROWLEY COUNTY...NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH A HISTORY OF TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE
TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN OTERO AND SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTIES AFFECTING
THE TOWNS OF MANZANOLA...ROCKY FORD...SWINK...SUGAR CITY...CHERAW
...ORDWAY AND THE WESTERN EDGE OF LA JUNTA AS WELL AS MOTORISTS ALONG
HIGHWAYS 50 AND 96.
 
AT 845 PM MDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE TWO MILES NORTHEAST OF
ROCKY FORD AND THE HAWLEY VICINITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO GO TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM OR BATHROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON VEHICLES
AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CUL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	68 min
Jun 7, 8:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Otero	29 min
Jun 7, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	56 min
Jun 7, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	56 min
Jun 7, 9:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	47 min
Jun 7, 9:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	67 min
Jun 7, 10:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
Jun 7, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	46 min
Jun 8, 2:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	33 min
Jun 8, 3:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	52 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.