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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2008, 10:50 AM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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 5, 2008, 10:50 AM MDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2008, 11:33 AM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 051650 TORPUB COC009-051745- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0004.080605T1650Z-080605T1745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1050 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 1145 AM MDT... * AT 1049 AM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. NEAR CAMPO...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 14 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CAMPO. STONINGTON. DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM MDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3736 10279 3733 10214 3700 10234 3701 10275 TIME...MOT...LOC 1650Z 222DEG 12KT 3708 10258 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 051710 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1110 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008 COC009-051745- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080605T1745Z/ BACA CO- 1107 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 AM MDT FOR CENTRAL BACA COUNTY... TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD WHEN THE STORM WAS WEST OF CAMPO AT 1049 AM. AT 1105 AM THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED 6 MILES EAST OF CAMPO...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST BACA COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STONINGTON. LAT...LON 3736 10279 3733 10214 3700 10234 3701 10275 TIME...MOT...LOC 1707Z 236DEG 30KT 3718 10239 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 051733 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1133 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008 COC009-051737- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080605T1745Z/ BACA CO- 1127 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL BACA COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNING AREA. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3736 10279 3733 10214 3700 10234 3701 10275 TIME...MOT...LOC 1727Z 236DEG 30KT 1886 5338 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:48 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 3:53 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 5:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 5:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 21 min |
| Jun 5, 6:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Pueblo | 104 min |
| Jun 5, 8:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 10:07 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 11:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 11:52 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 12:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 2:50 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 15 hr |
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.