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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 2, 1995Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1995, 2:39 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1995, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1995, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 293 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-02Temperature 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
2027 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 022044
TORPUB
COC071-022130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
239 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
 
   ...SOUTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
 
A DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL MOVE OVER I-25 5 MILES SOUTH OF TRINIDAD
BY 300 PM MDT.  THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING DAMAGING WINDS...
DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN.
 
AT 240 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADIC STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.
DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero, Pueblo66 min
Jun 2, 3:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo64 min
Jun 2, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley56 min
Jun 2, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Otero59 min
Jun 2, 4:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas69 min
Jun 2, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso67 min
Jun 2, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent68 min
Jun 2, 5:20 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent25 min
Jun 2, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers60 min
Jun 2, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent30 min
Jun 2, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas25 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.