Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1997, 7:05 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 7:05 PM MDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 7:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 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 01:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1375 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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 140106 RRA TORPUB COC041-140140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 705 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 740 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RAMAH THROUGH 725 PM * AT 700 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF RAMAH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. AH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 10:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 11:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 11:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 2:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 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.