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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 1995Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1995, 9:13 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1995, 9:13 PM MDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1995, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 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: 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 080316
TORPUB
COC061-080400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
913 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY
 
A TORNADO WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY BY 920 PM AFFECTING THE
COMMUNITY OF ARLINGTON BY 930 PM AND HASWELL BY 950 PM.
 
AT 910 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS
12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARLINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SPOTTER
REPORTS CONTINUE TO INDICATE A TORNADO ON THE GROUND WITH THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO GO IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM...
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. 2AVOID WINDOWS.
 
BT/AH
 
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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 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, 8:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley, 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, 9:53 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

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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.