Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2007, 1:48 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 16 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
- Jul 3, 2007, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 2:04 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 381 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
- 5726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 031948 TORPUB COC041-032045- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0020.070703T1948Z-070703T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 148 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 245 PM MDT... * AT 142 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSH...OR 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... YODER. 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 3900 10401 3901 10424 3869 10430 3869 10396 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WFUS55 KPUB 031949 CCA TORPUB COC041-032045- /O.COR.KPUB.TO.W.0020.070703T1948Z-070703T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 148 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 245 PM MDT... * AT 142 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSH...OR 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... YODER. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3900 10401 3901 10424 3869 10430 3869 10396 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 031955 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 155 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 COC041-032045- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-070703T2045Z/ EL PASO CO- 155 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY... AT 148 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR RUSH...OR 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... YODER. TRUCKTON. RUSH. LAT...LON 3900 10401 3901 10424 3869 10430 3869 10396 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 032004 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 200 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 COC041-032010- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-070703T2045Z/ EL PASO CO- 200 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PRODUCED THIS TORNADO HAS RAPIDLY WEAKENED. RADAR INDICATES THAT THE STORM WHICH PRODUCED THE TORNADO FORMED ON A WEATHER BOUNDARY WHICH IS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY. THIS BOUNDARY IS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER NORTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY. NEW STORMS MAY FORM ON THIS BOUNDARY AND ALSO BECOME SEVERE OR POSSIBLY TORNADIC LATER THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE IN EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR MORE SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS AFTERNOON. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3900 10401 3901 10424 3869 10430 3869 10396 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 8 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.