Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bent County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 9:20 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Las Animas, CO | A short-lived tornado moved through open country causing no known damage. |
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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 230301 TORPUB COC011-230400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 900 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1000 PM MDT * AT 900 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO WAS OVER EASTERN BENT COUNTY... OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY... AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL AND DANGEROUS TORNADO IS IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR ITS PATH...FIND YOUR SAFE SPOT NOW! & LAT...LON 3791 10275 3794 10295 3767 10333 3767 10275
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 7:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 7:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 8:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 9:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 9:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.