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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 26, 1995Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 2:47 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Otero County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
1403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 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 262047
TORPUB
COC089-262115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
247 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY
 
...AT 245 PM MDT A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS NEAR TIMPAS ON HIGHWAY 10 AND
WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 25 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE SOUTH OF LA
JUNTA AROUND 300 PM MDT...
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 2:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers32 min
May 26, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero65 min
May 26, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Kiowa49 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers43 min
May 26, 2:50 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers25 min
May 26, 3:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBOtero31 min
May 26, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers60 min
May 26, 3:23 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent37 min
May 26, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent30 min
May 26, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers60 min
May 26, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca46 min
May 26, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers45 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.