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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 3, 2002El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2002, 7:02 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2002, 7:02 PM MDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 7:18 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Calhan, CO
Jun 3, 7:20 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Simla, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1002 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1152 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

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

399 
WFUS55 KPUB 040102
TORPUB
COC041-040145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
701 PM MDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 701 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS
  OVER CALHAN...OR ABOUT 29 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY EAST OF CALHAN

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY
IN THE WARNED 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 POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3912 10439 3893 10432 3898 10405 3912 10405

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	44 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	48 min
Jun 3, 7:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	65 min
Jun 3, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	51 min
Jun 3, 9:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	58 min
Jun 3, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	55 min
Jun 3, 9:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	60 min
Jun 3, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	45 min
Jun 4, 3:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	61 min
Jun 4, 6:20 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	55 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.