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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 27, 2000Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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 27, 2000, 1:30 PM MDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2000, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 287 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-27Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

930 
WFUS55 KPUB 271930
TORPUB
COC055-071-272030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
130 PM MDT TUE JUN 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 230 PM MDT

* AT 130 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 19
  MILES NORTHWEST OF MODEL...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  WALSENBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  MODEL...TYRONE AROUND 150 PM MDT

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 3759 10461 3743 10469 3713 10391 3743 10378

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 10:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBAlamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache62 min
Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas60 min
Jun 27, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas67 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.