Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2002, 6:51 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 99 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
- Aug 9, 2002, 6:51 PM MDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2002, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 99 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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, 7:10 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Mc Clave, CO | A thunderstorm wind gust blew a semi-trailer off Highway 50. |
| Aug 9, 7:12 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Lamar Arpt, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
775 WFUS55 KPUB 100051 TORPUB COC011-099-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 651 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 830 PM MDT * AT 651 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILEY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... WILEY AROUND 705 PM MDT LAMAR AROUND 725 PM MDT AT 650 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO IN EXTREME NORTHWEST PROWERS COUNTY. 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 3826 10256 3826 10298 3779 10248 3805 10211
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 71 min |
| Aug 9, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 118 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 |
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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.