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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 1, 1998Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1998, 6:27 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 1, 1998, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1998, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 1998-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1351 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1998-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 020037 COR
TORPUB
COC101-020100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED LAST PARAGRAPH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
627 PM MDT WED JUL 1 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 622 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO
  WEST MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE AREAS BETWEEN PUEBLO WEST AND
PUEBLO THROUGH 635 PM WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO
THROUGH 655 PM  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.

A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY
50 AND WEST OF SWALLOWS ROAD...WITH 3/4 INCH HAIL 3 MILES EAST
OF BEAVER CREEK ON HIGHWAY 50.

ASH/SJC



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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley46 min
Jul 1, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa60 min
Jul 1, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa63 min
Jul 1, 9:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBKiowa114 min
Jul 1, 9:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa63 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.