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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 27, 2000Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2000, 2:30 PM MDT for 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, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2000, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 297 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 79 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 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.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 272032
TORPUB
COC071-272130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 230 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 
  MILES NORTH OF TRINCHERA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD 
  ALONG HIGHWAY 160...  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TRINCHERA AROUND 235 PM MDT
  BRANSON AROUND 250 PM MDT

AT 215 A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL 
AT HOEHNE

THIS TORNADO WARNING EXTENDS THE TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT 
FOR THE SAME AREA.

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 3733 10405 3715 10421 3700 10407 3702 10349

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 10:58 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache	62 min
Jun 27, 1:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	60 min
Jun 27, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	67 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.