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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 30, 1998Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1998, 8:12 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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: Jul 30, 1998, 8:12 PM MDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1998, 9:10 PM MDT
In force: 58 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 02:13 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
Jul 30, 8:25 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Las Animas, 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, 2.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

389 
WFUS1 KPUB 310214 RRA
TORPUB
COC011-310310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
812 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 910 PM MDT

* AT 810 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LAS ANIMAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.  RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 10 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF LAS ANIMAS.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE LUBERS AND CADDOA AND THE OPEN
COUNTRY OF NORTHERN BENT COUNTY AROUND THESE COMMUNITIES.  IF YOU
ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION.
ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A DITCH...CULVERT OR
REINFORCED BUILDING.

PW/LW



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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 6:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	59 min
Jul 30, 6:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 30, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	63 min
Jul 30, 7:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	56 min
Jul 31, 1:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Saguache	91 min
Jul 31, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	62 min
Jul 31, 5:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer	3 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.