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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 2, 2005El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2005, 7:44 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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 2, 2005, 7:44 PM MDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2005, 8:27 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:45 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 2, 7:35 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 705 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 030144
TORPUB
COC041-030245-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0004.050603T0144Z-050603T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
744 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT.

* AT 740 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS CENTERED 7 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ELLICOTT...OR 27 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...AND
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY.

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 3898 10444 3884 10437 3885 10405 3910 10405

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 030158
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
758 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

COC041-030245-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050603T0245Z/
EL PASO CO-
758 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL
845 PM MDT...

AT 753 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION.  THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED NEAR YODER...OR ABOUT 31 MILES EAST OF
COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RUSH BY 815 PM MDT

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3897 10436 3883 10431 3882 10405 3910 10405

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 030210
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
809 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

COC041-030245-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050603T0245Z/
EL PASO CO-
809 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 845
PM MDT...

AT 807 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION.  THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED NEAR RUSH...OR ABOUT 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN EL
PASO COUNTY...INCLUDING RUSH.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE 
HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3894 10420 3884 10421 3882 10405 3899 10405

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 030227
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
828 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

COC041-030238-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050603T0245Z/
EL PASO CO-
828 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELED...

AT 824 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE WEATHER HAS
MOVED OUT OF THIS AREA AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO
LIFE OR PROPERTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3894 10420 3884 10421 3882 10405 3899 10405

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	54 min
Jun 2, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	58 min
Jun 3, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Saguache	29 min
Jun 3, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.