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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 10, 2003Alamosa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 2003, 4:25 PM MDT for Alamosa 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
Aug 10, 2003, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2003, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Alamosa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 102225
TORPUB
COC003-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
424 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALAMOSA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 424 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  TORNADO WAS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAN LUIS LAKE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
  NORTH OF ALAMOSA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SAN LUIS LAKE AROUND 430 PM MDT
  MOSCA AROUND 500 PM MDT
  ALAMOSA AROUND 530 PM MDT

AT 424 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW TORNADO 19 MILES 
NORTH OF ALAMOSA.  

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 3772 10563 3773 10587 3755 10610 3739 10574

$$
METZE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso58 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.