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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 4:35 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 7, 2001, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County El Paso County, CO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 2:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 072235
TORPUB
COC041-072330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
435 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 435 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3
  MILES WEST OF FALCON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO
  SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SCHRIEVER AFB AROUND 505 PM MDT
  ELLICOTT AROUND 520 PM MDT
  YODER AROUND 530 PM MDT

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

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 PGOSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


LAT...LON 3903 10468 3888 10480 3858 10434 3886 10414

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	85 min
Jun 7, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	97 min
Jun 7, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	69 min
Jun 7, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	92 min
Jun 7, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	88 min
Jun 7, 3:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent	3 hr
Jun 7, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	76 min
Jun 7, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	54 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	63 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
Jun 7, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	90 min
Jun 7, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	60 min
Jun 7, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	95 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.