Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2009, 9:53 AM MST for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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
- Mar 7, 2009, 9:53 AM MST (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2009, 10:31 AM MST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 2732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 071653
TORPUB
COC009-071800-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0001.090307T1653Z-090307T1800Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
953 AM MST SAT MAR 7 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 1100 AM MST
* AT 953 AM MST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO. NEAR
CAMPO...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE EAST AT 37 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL BACA
COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3698 10266 3699 10273 3716 10275 3725 10204
3701 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 1653Z 264DEG 32KT 3708 10263
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 071715 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1015 AM MST SAT MAR 7 2009 COC009-071800- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-090307T1800Z/ BACA CO- 1015 AM MST SAT MAR 7 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM MST FOR SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY... AT 1008 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS CENTERED OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY...OR 28 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 38 MPH. THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY. AT 1012 AM THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTH OF WALSH. THIS IS ALONG A BOUNDARY SOUTH OF THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM...AND OTHER QUICKLY DEVELOPING WEAK LANDSPOUTS ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 3699 10249 3718 10253 3725 10204 3701 10203 TIME...MOT...LOC 1710Z 256DEG 33KT 3703 10242 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 071731 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1031 AM MST SAT MAR 7 2009 COC009-071741- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-090307T1800Z/ BACA CO- 1031 AM MST SAT MAR 7 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY... HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3699 10249 3718 10253 3725 10204 3701 10203 TIME...MOT...LOC 1731Z 256DEG 33KT 3708 10218 $$
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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.