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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 22, 2006Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2006, 5:30 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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 22, 2006, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2006, 6:13 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 22, 12:21 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 222330
TORPUB
COC099-230030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0004.060622T2330Z-060623T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
530 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT...

* AT 528 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED OVER WEST CENTRAL PROWERS
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED
  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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3794 10271 3775 10271 3776 10213 3803 10217

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 222348
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
548 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

COC099-230030-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060623T0030Z/
PROWERS CO-
548 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR SOUTHERN
PROWERS COUNTY...

AT 545 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION.  THIS SEVERE
STORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY...OR 21 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED
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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3794 10271 3766 10269 3765 10205 3794 10206

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 230000
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
600 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

COC099-230030-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060623T0030Z/
PROWERS CO-
600 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY...

AT 558 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION.  THIS SEVERE
STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY...OR 22 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF COOLIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED
COUNTY.

THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF VERY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL.

NO TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED YET...BUT THIS STORM IS STILL ROTATING
RAPIDLY AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3792 10250 3767 10250 3765 10205 3794 10206

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 230013
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
613 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

COC099-230023-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-060623T0030Z/
PROWERS CO-
613 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS
COUNTY...

THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF TORNADOES HAS ENDED. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY 
STILL BE IN THE AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3792 10250 3767 10250 3765 10205 3794 10206

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 12:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	55 min
Jun 22, 12:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	76 min
Jun 22, 1:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	60 min
Jun 22, 1:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	76 min
Jun 22, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	58 min
Jun 22, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	26 min
Jun 22, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	91 min
Jun 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	66 min
Jun 22, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	23 min
Jun 22, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	88 min
Jun 22, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	61 min

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.