Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 7:57 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2000, 7:57 PM MDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:58 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Lamar, CO | What was likely a landspout tornado on the southeast side of the supercell traveled through open country. Because of the lack of trees, crops, fence line, and roads, the exact path of the tornado was difficult to determine, and no damage was discovered. |
| Jul 22, 8:00 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Mc Clave, CO | The supercell cycled another weak tornado northeast of McClave over open country. Because of the lack of trees, crops, fence line, and roads, the exact path of the tornado was difficult to determine, and there was no damage discovered. |
| Jul 22, 8:05 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Mc Clave, CO | |
| Jul 22, 8:34 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Lamar, CO | A short-lived landspout tornado moved through open country. Because of the lack of trees, crops, fence line, and roads, the exact path of the tornado was difficult to determine, and no damage was discovered. |
| Jul 22, 8:42 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Lamar, 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
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.
| 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, 7:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 55 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 |
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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.