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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 9, 2002Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2002, 6:19 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 71 min. 1 report 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: Aug 9, 2002, 6:19 PM MDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2002, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 71 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 9, 6:33 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Eads, 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
Aug 9, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1040 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

042 
WFUS55 KPUB 100019
TORPUB
COC061-100130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
618 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT

* AT 618 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 11
  MILES WEST OF SWEETWATER RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  NEE GRANDE RESERVOIR...SWEETWATER RESERVOIR AROUND 635 PM MDT
  NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR AROUND 640 PM MDT
  QUEENS RESERVOIR AROUND 645 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 3853 10297 3838 10315 3826 10302 3827 10259

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	118 min
Aug 9, 6:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	99 min
Aug 9, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	86 min
Aug 9, 7:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	83 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.