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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 1, 2003Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2003, 2:22 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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 1, 2003, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2003, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 1, 12:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

738 
WFUS55 KPUB 012022
TORPUB
COC061-012115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
217 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 217 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  TORNADO WAS 21 MILES NORTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  WEST OF SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SHERIDAN LAKE...BRANDON AROUND 255 PM MDT
  TOWNER AROUND 300 PM MDT

AT 205 PM MDT...A TRAINED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW 2 
TORNADOES ON THE GROUND NEAR CHEYENNE WELLS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT.

LAT...LON 3885 10207 3882 10251 3827 10248 3828 10207

$$

LW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 1:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, Otero60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.