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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 30, 1995Costilla County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1995, 1:49 PM MDT for Costilla County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 1995, 1:49 PM MDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Costilla County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 301949
TORPUB
COC023-302015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
149 PM MDT FRI JUN 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH COLORADO
 
   ...NORTHERN COSTILLA COUNTY
 
PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST
OF ALAMOSA OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT GARLAND.
 
A WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE IN ALAMOSA SPOTTED A FUNNEL CLOUD FROM
THE STORM IN COSTILLA COUNTY AT 150 PM.
 
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GO TO A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
TLM
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 2:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBRio Grande, Saguache51 min
Jun 30, 3:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCostilla49 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.