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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 3, 2002Crowley County, Kiowa County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2002, 7:40 PM MDT for Crowley County, Kiowa County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2002, 7:40 PM MDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Otero 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 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

195 
WFUS55 KPUB 040140
TORPUB
COC025-061-089-040245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 740 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 5
  MILES EAST OF SUGAR CITY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  ARLINGTON AROUND 815 PM MDT
  HASWELL AROUND 845 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 POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3823 10371 3813 10358 3838 10300 3866 10325

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, 7:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	43 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	48 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

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.