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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 6, 1996Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1996, 4:30 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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 6, 1996, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1996, 5:35 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1996-09-06Temperature 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 1996-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 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 062232
TORPUB
COC061-062335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
430 PM MDT FRI SEP 6 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 535 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    TOWNER BY 440 PM
    HIGHWAY 96 AROUND TOWNER THROUGH 450 PM

* AT 430 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF TOWNER MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SPOTTERS FOR KIOWA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
TOWNER AT 425 PM.

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.

PW

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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.