Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2000, 5:12 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 21, 2000, 5:12 PM MDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
283 WFUS55 KPUB 212314 TORPUB COC071-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 512 PM MDT FRI JUL 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 512 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TYRONE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... TYRONE AROUND 525 PM MDT... OPEN COUNTRY OF...NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. AT 511 PM...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO ABOUT 56 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...IN LAS ANIMAS 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 3764 10418 3751 10434 3720 10407 3743 10374
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 89 min |
| Jul 20, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 88 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.