Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 9:26 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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, 9:26 PM MDT (03:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Baca County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:04 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Springfield, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 230327 TORPUB COC009-230430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 926 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD * UNTIL 1030 PM MDT * AT 926 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO WAS 22 MILES NORTH OF PRITCHETT...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... WALSH AROUND 940 PM MDT... VILAS AROUND 945 PM MDT... SPRINGFIELD AROUND 950 PM MDT... PRITCHETT AROUND 1000 PM MDT... CAMPO AROUND 1025 PM MDT... AT 920 PM MDT A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST 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 3760 10234 3763 10304 3702 10306 3701 10206
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, 9:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 9:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
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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.