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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 16, 2000Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2000, 7:23 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2000, 7:23 PM MDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 591 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
591 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 6:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca24 min
Jul 17, 2:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller54 min
Jul 17, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso64 min
Jul 17, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas61 min
Jul 17, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso75 min
Jul 17, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo67 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.