Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 1997, 7:59 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 11, 1997, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 120159 RRA TORPUB COC071-120245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 759 PM MDT SAT OCT 11 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 845 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 350 THROUGH 845 PM * AT 800 PM RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 25 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. VERY LARGE HAIL IS INDICATED BY RADAR WITH THIS DANGEROUS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 46 min |
| Oct 11, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 50 min |
| Oct 11, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 45 min |
| Oct 11, 7:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 45 min |
| Oct 11, 7:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 45 min |
| Oct 11, 7:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Oct 11, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Oct 11, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 46 min |
| Oct 11, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 19 min |
| Oct 11, 8:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 47 min |
| Oct 11, 8:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 58 min |
| Oct 11, 9:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley | 47 min |
| Oct 11, 9:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 43 min |
| Oct 11, 9:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 47 min |
| Oct 11, 10:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Oct 11, 10:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 50 min |
| Oct 11, 11:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 49 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.