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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 11, 2009Bent County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2009, 7:13 PM MDT for Bent County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 20 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 11, 2009, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2009, 7:33 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bent County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 11, 2:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 120113
TORPUB
COC011-089-120215-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0010.090612T0113Z-090612T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
713 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  EAST CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 710 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE STORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL BENT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  EAST OF LA JUNTA...WHICH WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL BENT
  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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

&&

LAT...LON 3787 10296 3772 10302 3797 10353 3810 10346
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 302DEG 22KT 3797 10335

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 120133
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
733 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2009

COC011-089-120142-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-090612T0215Z/
OTERO CO-BENT CO-
733 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL BENT AND EAST
CENTRAL OTERO COUNTIES...

HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO ** WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN BENT 
COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM MDT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3787 10296 3772 10302 3797 10353 3810 10346
TIME...MOT...LOC 0132Z 302DEG 22KT 3791 10323

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 6:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	54 min
Jun 11, 6:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Otero	59 min
Jun 11, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero, Pueblo	16 min
Jun 11, 6:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Otero	54 min
Jun 11, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	62 min
Jun 11, 7:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	53 min
Jun 11, 8:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	60 min
Jun 11, 9:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	37 min
Jun 11, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	37 min
Jun 12, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	57 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.