Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2006, 5:15 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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 9, 2006, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2006, 5:44 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 092315 TORPUB COC025-100015- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0010.060709T2315Z-060710T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 515 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 615 PM MDT... * AT 513 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SUGAR CITY...OR 16 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY. 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 3829 10374 3815 10371 3817 10350 3839 10351 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 092327 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 527 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 COC025-100015- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-060710T0015Z/ CROWLEY CO- 527 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 526 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF SUGAR CITY...OR 16 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3829 10374 3815 10371 3817 10350 3839 10351 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 092344 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 544 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 COC025-092354- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-060710T0015Z/ CROWLEY CO- 544 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY... THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3829 10374 3815 10371 3817 10350 3839 10351 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:37 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more | 18 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla | 67 min |
| Jul 9, 1:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 2:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Baca | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 5:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 12 min |
| Jul 9, 5:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 5:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Otero | 2 hr |
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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.