Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2006, 6:26 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 94 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
- Aug 26, 2006, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2006, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 94 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), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 270026 TORPUB COC025-270200- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0015.060827T0026Z-060827T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 626 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 800 PM MDT... * AT 622 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 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOONE...OR 17 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLNEY SPRINGS. CROWLEY. ORDWAY. SUGAR CITY. DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3839 10401 3815 10404 3812 10364 3840 10355 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 270036 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 636 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 COC025-270200- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-060827T0200Z/ CROWLEY CO- 636 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 635 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLNEY SPRINGS...OR 22 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH. VERY INTENSE ROTATION WAS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLNEY SPRINGS. CROWLEY. ORDWAY. SUGAR CITY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3836 10403 3815 10404 3812 10364 3836 10355 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 270046 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 646 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 COC025-270200- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-060827T0200Z/ CROWLEY CO- 646 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 643 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLNEY SPRINGS...OR 26 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLNEY SPRINGS. CROWLEY. ORDWAY. SUGAR CITY. THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3836 10403 3815 10404 3812 10364 3836 10355 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 270100 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 659 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 COC025-270200- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-060827T0200Z/ CROWLEY CO- 659 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY... AT 656 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLNEY SPRINGS...OR 31 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLNEY SPRINGS. CROWLEY. ORDWAY. SUGAR CITY. THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE. DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY EXTEND WELL SOUTH OF THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION. THESE DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY AFFECTING TOWNS ALONG HIGHWAY 50. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3836 10403 3815 10404 3812 10364 3836 10355 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 6:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 118 min |
| Aug 26, 6:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 7:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 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.