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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 11, 1997Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 3:42 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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 11, 1997, 3:42 PM MDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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 11, 3:46 PM MDTHail 0.75Towner, 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

269 
WFUS1 KPUB 112142 RRA
TORPUB
COC061-112230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
342 PM MDT WED JUN 11 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  OPEN COUNTY NORTH OF TOWNER THROUGH 415 PM

* AT 340 PM RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF TOWNER
    MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

A SPOTTER REPORTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO AND 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL.

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

PW
 

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo59 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.