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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 20, 2000Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2000, 9:18 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2000, 9:18 PM MDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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 2000-06-21Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
4059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

142 
WFUS55 KPUB 210323 RRA
TORPUB
TTAA00 KPUB 210318

COC089-210400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
918 PM MDT TUE JUN 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT

* AT 918 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A      
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 1 MILE NORTH OF THE LA JUNTA AIRPORT OR 2 MILES 
  NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST          
  OTERO COUNTY...INCLUDING HIGHWAYS 96 AND 50 EAST OF LA JUNTA.

AT 915 PM MDT...LOCAL OFFICIALS SAW A FUNNEL CLOUD 1 MILE NORTH OF 
THE LA JUNTA AIRPORT.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...AND A
TORNADO IS VERY NEAR...GO TO A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING AND GET IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AS A
LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR CULVERT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD

&

LAT...LON 3809 10358 3796 10341 3794 10340 3825 10341
          3818 10344

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas58 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.