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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 15, 2004Alamosa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 5:56 PM MDT for Alamosa County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 15, 2004, 5:56 PM MDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 34 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), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 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 152356
TORPUB
COC003-160030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
556 PM MDT THU JUL 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 555 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL ALAMOSA COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF ALAMOSA...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL EASTERN ALAMOSA COUNTY THROUGH 610 PM MDT

A TORNADO WAS CONFIRMED ON THE GROUND ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF 
ALAMOSA. IT WAS REPORTED BY THE COLORADO STATE PATROL. THIS TORNADO 
IS VISIBLE FROM ALAMOSA.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3751 10581 3741 10571 3751 10557 3763 10560

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 2:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Saguache	118 min
Jul 15, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	65 min
Jul 15, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	56 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.