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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 1995El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1995, 2:17 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1995, 2:17 PM MDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 1995-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1995-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175194214233253272292311330Sfc1 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
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 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 042017
TORPUB
COC041-042100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
217 PM MDT FRI AUG 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
 
   ...WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY
 
AT 215 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A DEVELOPING TORNADO
WILL MOVE OVER COLORADO SPRINGS BY 230 PM MDT.
 
THIS STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS.  MOVEMENT
WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...GO TO A NEARBY STRONG BUILDING. IF YOU
CANNOT GET INDOORS...GO TO A LOW SPOT...CROUCH DOWN...AND COVER
YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS FOR PROTECTION.
 
 
KT

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.