Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2006, 6:38 PM MDT for Pueblo 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
- Aug 26, 2006, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2006, 7:07 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 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), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 270039 TORPUB COC101-270130- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0016.060827T0038Z-060827T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 638 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 730 PM MDT... * AT 635 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 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOONE...OR 18 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY. DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS STORM HAS A LONG HISTORY OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS. 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 3836 10426 3821 10430 3816 10407 3835 10406 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 270047 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 647 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 COC101-270130- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060827T0130Z/ PUEBLO CO- 647 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 643 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BOONE...OR 24 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY. THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3836 10426 3821 10430 3816 10407 3835 10406 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 270056 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 656 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 COC101-270130- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060827T0130Z/ PUEBLO CO- 656 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... AT 651 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...OR 28 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY AROUND 715 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3835 10415 3819 10420 3816 10407 3835 10406 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 270107 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 706 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 COC101-270116- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060827T0130Z/ PUEBLO CO- 706 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY... THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 715 PM ACROSS FAR EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. NO MORE SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED ACROSS PUEBLO COUNTY THIS EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3835 10415 3819 10420 3816 10407 3835 10406 $$
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, 6:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley | 94 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 |
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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.