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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 6, 1997El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1997, 6:17 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 6, 1997, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1997, 6:50 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 6:32 PM MDTHail 1.75Colorado Spgs, CO
Jun 6, 6:45 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 56Colorado Spgs, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 165 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 070018 RRA
TORPUB
COC041-070050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
617 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 650 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  FOUNTAIN BY 620
  SECURITY AND WIDEFIELD BY 625 PM
  NORTHERN FORT CARSON BY 635 PM

* AT 615 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF FOUNTAIN MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 8:52 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller3 hr
Jun 6, 10:36 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBCrowley, Otero3 hr

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.