Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2005, 12:24 AM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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 10, 2005, 12:24 AM MDT (06:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 100624 TORPUB COC009-100800- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0005.050610T0624Z-050610T0800Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1224 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS INCLUDES SPRINGFIELD * UNTIL 200 AM MDT. * AT 1222 AM 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 NEAR SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE STORM WILL BE... OVER VILAS BY 1245 AM MDT OVER WALSH BY 100 AM MDT OVER STONINGTON BY 115 AM MDT 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 3748 10274 3730 10277 3715 10206 3748 10206 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 100639 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1238 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 2005 COC009-100800- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050610T0800Z/ BACA CO- 1238 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL BACA COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM MDT... AT 1235 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ROTATION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED NEAR VILAS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER WALSH BY 100 AM MDT OVER BARTLETT BY 115 AM MDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3748 10274 3730 10277 3715 10206 3748 10206 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 100700 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 100 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 2005 COC009-100710- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050610T0800Z/ BACA CO- 100 AM MDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BACA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... AT 1257 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LIGHTNING...THE WEATHER NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY IN THIS AREA. LAT...LON 3748 10274 3730 10277 3715 10206 3748 10206 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 11:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 12:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 3:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 96 min |
| Jun 10, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 4:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 56 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.