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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 1999Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1999, 5:27 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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 9, 1999, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1999, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 742 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 092323
TORPUB
COC099-100015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
527 PM MDT WED JUN 9 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 527 PM A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO.  RADAR SHOWED
  THIS TORNADIC STORM ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLY OR 35 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHEAST PROWERS
COUNTY THROUGH 615 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.  AJBANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A DITCH...
CULVERT OR REINFORCED BUILDING.

PGW/PE



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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.