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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 2, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1996, 4:31 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 1996, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1996, 5:20 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1475 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
11.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 022231
TORPUB
COC009-022320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
431 PM MDT MON SEP 2 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 520 PM MDT
 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    HIGHWAY 287/385 NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD BY 430 PM
    HIGHWAY 116 BY 440 PM

* AT 425 PM THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF
SPRINGFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
 WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO.

A FOLLOW UP STATEMENT WITH MORE DETAILS ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER
SITUATION WILL BE OUT SHORTLY.

PE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers47 min
Sep 2, 5:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.