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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2007, 5:44 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 21, 2007, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2007, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 2628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 212344 TORPUB COC061-099-220045- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0006.070421T2344Z-070422T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 544 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... NORTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAMAR... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT... * AT 539 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 8 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CARLTON. CROSSING HIGHWAY 50 5 EAST OF LAMAR. SHERIDAN LAKE. 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 3802 10263 3795 10238 3861 10207 3859 10258 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 212354 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 554 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 COC061-099-220045- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070422T0045Z/ PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO- 554 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR EASTERN KIOWA AND NORTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTIES... AT 551 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED 6 MILES WEST OF BRISTOL...OR 10 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BRISTOL. SHERIDAN LAKE. BRANDON. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3802 10260 3795 10238 3861 10207 3861 10246 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 220043 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 644 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 COC061-220054- /O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070422T0045Z/ KIOWA CO- 644 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 645 PM MDT... LAT...LON 3827 10244 3827 10211 3861 10207 3861 10243 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 66 min |
| Apr 21, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 64 min |
| Apr 21, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
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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.