Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2006, 5:23 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 12 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, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2006, 5:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 092322 TORPUB COC101-100030- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0011.060709T2323Z-060710T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 523 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO... * UNTIL 630 PM MDT... * AT 518 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 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PINON...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT LOOK FOR THE TORNADO. FIND YOUR SAFE SPOT NOW 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 3842 10465 3824 10459 3830 10407 3851 10416 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KPUB 092335 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 535 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 COC101-092345- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-060710T0030Z/ PUEBLO CO- 535 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY... THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3842 10465 3824 10459 3830 10407 3851 10416 $$
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, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley | 29 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 |
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.