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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 3, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1996, 1:07 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 3, 1996, 1:07 PM MDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 1:40 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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 1996-06-03Temperature 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 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 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 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 031907
TORPUB
COC009-031940-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
107 PM MDT MON JUN 3 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  CENTRAL BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 140 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    VILAS THROUGH 115 PM
    HIGHWAY 160 THROUGH 120 PM
    WALSH THROUGH 120 PM

* AT 106 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF WALSH MOVING
  SOUTH AT 20 MPH..

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

RMG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 11:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca63 min
Jun 3, 12:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca46 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.