Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 1997, 9:03 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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
- Oct 11, 1997, 9:03 PM MDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 9:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 9:07 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Crowley, CO | A brief tornado was reported by a Crowley county sheriffs officer on the outskirts of Crowley. There was no known damage. The brief, weak tornado was associated with the line of thunderstorms to the west of several supercell storms. |
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 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 120303 RRA TORPUB COC025-120350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 903 PM MDT SAT OCT 11 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 950 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED OVER OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 96 AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 71 THROUGH 915 PM CROSSING HIGHWAY 71 4 MILES NORTH OF ORDWAY AT 915 PM * AT 900 PM RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORDWAY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS VERY DANGEROUS STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!.
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, 7:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 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, 9:12 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 |
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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.