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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 5, 2003Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2003, 6:02 PM MDT for Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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
Sep 5, 2003, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2003, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 00:00Z on 2003-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 00:00Z on 2003-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 060002
TORPUB
COC043-101-060100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
601 PM MDT FRI SEP 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO
  PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 601 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  TORNADO WAS OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18
  MILES WEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO AND EASTERN FREMONT COUNTIES

AT 600 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO NEAR 
HIGHWAY 50 ALONG THE FREMONT AND PUEBLO COUNTY LINE.

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 3838 10509 3826 10491 3835 10476 3847 10490

$$

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.