Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 7:13 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:17 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Eads, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 230116 TORPUB COC061-230200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 713 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 713 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... VICINITY OF EADS AROUND 730 PM MDT... OPEN COUNTY OF CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH 800 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 3858 10282 3845 10265 3881 10211 3900 10235
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, 7:35 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, 9:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.