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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 29, 2007Custer County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2007, 4:26 PM MDT for Custer County, Colorado. It was in force for 21 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 29, 2007, 4:26 PM MDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2007, 4:47 PM MDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Custer County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 292226
TORPUB
COC027-292330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0019.070629T2226Z-070629T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
426 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT...

* AT 425 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 SOUTH OF ROSITA...
  OR 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL 
CUSTER   COUNTY...SOUTH OF WESTCLIFFE.

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 3810 10533 3803 10554 3788 10545 3793 10534
      3792 10529 3794 10524 3800 10520

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 292228 CCA
TORPUB
COC027-292330-
/O.COR.KPUB.TO.W.0019.070629T2226Z-070629T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
426 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT...

* AT 425 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 SOUTH OF ROSITA...
  OR 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
  CUSTER COUNTY...SOUTH OF WESTCLIFFE.

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 3810 10533 3803 10554 3788 10545 3793 10534
      3792 10529 3794 10524 3800 10520

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 292240
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
438 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2007

COC027-292330-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070629T2330Z/
CUSTER CO-
438 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM MDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...

AT 430 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ROTATION CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED OVER SOUTH 
CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...OR 42 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS 
MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL 
CUSTER COUNTY...SOUTH OF ROSITA.

BETWEEN 400 AND 415 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS SAW A 
FUNNEL CLOUD 6 TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF WESTCLIFFE.  ALTHOUGH FUNNEL 
CLOUDS ARE NO LONGER BEING REPORTED...DOPPLER RADAR STILL INDICATES 
ROTATION WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. 

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 3807 10527 3803 10542 3790 10540 3793 10534
      3793 10531 3790 10529 3790 10527 3793 10526
      3794 10524 3796 10522 3796 10522 3800 10519

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 292247
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
446 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2007

COC027-292256-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070629T2330Z/
CUSTER CO-
446 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CUSTER
COUNTY...

THE STORM HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AND ROTATION IS NO LONGER 
OCCURRING WITHIN THE THUNDERSTORMS.  THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING 
HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN 
THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3807 10527 3803 10542 3790 10540 3793 10534
      3793 10531 3790 10529 3790 10527 3793 10526
      3794 10524 3796 10522 3796 10522 3800 10519

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Costilla	30 min
Jun 29, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Saguache	50 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2007 Every tornado warning in 2007 Tornadoes in 2007

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.