Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2007, 3:31 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 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 22, 2007, 3:31 PM MDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2007, 3:48 PM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bent County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 222132
TORPUB
COC011-222230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0025.070822T2131Z-070822T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
331 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 430 PM MDT...
* AT 328 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 4 MILES EAST OF CADDOA...OR
13 MILES WEST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT
MCCLAVE.
RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN BENT 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.
LAT...LON 3800 10296 3824 10290 3826 10288 3826 10277
3827 10275 3826 10272 3808 10272 3796 10278
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 195DEG 13KT 3807 10286
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS55 KPUB 222143
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
342 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007
COC011-222230-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-070822T2230Z/
BENT CO-
342 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY...
AT 341 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR CADDOA...OR
13 MILES WEST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 15 MPH.
THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MCCLAVE...AND RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY.
NO TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED YET...BUT THIS STORM IS STILL ROTATING
RAPIDLY AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3805 10294 3824 10290 3826 10288 3826 10277
3827 10275 3826 10272 3808 10272 3800 10277
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 195DEG 13KT 3811 10285
$$000
WWUS55 KPUB 222148
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
348 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007
COC011-222158-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-070822T2230Z/
BENT CO-
348 PM MDT WED AUG 22 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHEASTERN BENT
COUNTY...
THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY...AND ROTATION IS NO
LONGER INDICATED. HOWEVER...HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE
AREA.
LAT...LON 3805 10294 3824 10290 3826 10288 3826 10277
3827 10275 3826 10272 3808 10272 3800 10277
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 195DEG 13KT 3813 10284
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:55 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Prowers | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Prowers | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 31 min |
| Aug 22, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 96 min |
| Aug 22, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 97 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.