Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 1997, 10:40 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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, 10:40 PM MDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1997, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 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, 10:40 PM MDT | Hail 4.5 | Las Animas, CO | |
| Oct 11, 10:40 PM MDT | Tornado F1 | Las Animas, CO | A line of thunderstorms moving east through western Bent county merged with a northeast moving supercell thunderstorm just west of Las Animas. The hail quickly grew from one inch in diameter up to 4.50 inches in diameter. A tornado and high winds skipped acr |
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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 120440 RRA TORPUB COC011-120530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1040 PM MDT SAT OCT 11 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 1130 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED LAS ANIMAS THROUGH 1045 PM HIGHWAY 50 WEST OF LAS ANIMAS THROUGH 1045 PM * AT 1035 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 3 MILES WEST OF LAS ANIMAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS SEVERE STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 2.50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS REPOhRTED 2 MILES WEST OF LAS ANIMAS AT 1037 PM. SC &
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, 9:03 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, 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.