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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 25, 1996Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1996, 7:55 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1996, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1996, 8:40 PM MDT
In force
45 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 01:54 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 8:15 PM MDTTornado F0Stonington, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1224 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
1224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 260156
TORPUB
COC009-260240-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
755 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 1996

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  BACA COUNTY      IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 840 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    OPEN COUNTRY BETWEEN CAMPO AND STONINGTON THROUGH 810 PM MDT
    VICINITY OF STONINGTON BY 815 PM MDT

* AT 753 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMPO MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH.

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

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.