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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 22, 2000Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 7:58 PM MDTTornado F0Lamar, COWhat 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 MDTTornado F0Mc Clave, COThe 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 MDTHail 2.75Mc Clave, CO
Jul 22, 8:34 PM MDTTornado F0Lamar, COA 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 MDTHail 1.5Lamar, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 902 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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 22, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas64 min
Jul 22, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa65 min
Jul 22, 7:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa47 min
Jul 22, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas55 min
Jul 22, 8:33 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent27 min
Jul 22, 9:00 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent60 min
Jul 22, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers39 min
Jul 22, 9:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca64 min
Jul 22, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca60 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.