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Tornado Watch 542
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 22, 2006, 12:21 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2006, 12:21 PM MDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2006, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 1:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 1:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 1:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 76 min |
| Jun 22, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 2:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 2:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 22 min |
| Jun 22, 2:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 47 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, 3:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 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 |
| Jun 22, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 35 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:46 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Conejos, Costilla and 16 more | 89 min |
| Jun 22, 3:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more | 91 min |
| Jun 22, 5:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more | 85 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.