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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 13, 2009Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2009, 4:50 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 23 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 13, 2009, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2009, 5:13 PM MDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 13, 3:59 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 862 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -357 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 132250
TORPUB
COC009-071-132345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0013.090613T2250Z-090613T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
450 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 449 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE STORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIM...OR ABOUT 47 MILES WEST OF
  SPRINGFIELD...WHICH WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KIM.
  PRITCHETT.

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 MIDNIGHT MDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

&&

LAT...LON 3754 10297 3724 10277 3704 10345 3719 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 238DEG 22KT 3717 10341

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 132306
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
506 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009

COC009-071-132345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090613T2345Z/
BACA CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-
506 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES...

AT 504 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED NEAR
KIM...OR 41 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PRITCHETT.

THIS STORM CAN PRODUCE VERY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
NORTHWEST BACA AND NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS UNTIL 630 PM MDT.

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 MIDNIGHT MDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

&&

LAT...LON 3754 10297 3724 10277 3704 10345 3719 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 238DEG 22KT 3722 10331

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 132313
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
513 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009

COC009-071-132322-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090613T2345Z/
BACA CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-
513 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS
AND WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES...

HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR MUCH 
OF THE AREA OF THIS CANCELLED TORNADO WARNING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3754 10297 3724 10277 3704 10345 3719 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 238DEG 22KT 3724 10326

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	87 min
Jun 12, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	27 min
Jun 13, 12:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	62 min
Jun 13, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	53 min
Jun 13, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	67 min
Jun 13, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	58 min
Jun 13, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	46 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	61 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2009 Every tornado warning in 2009 Tornadoes in 2009

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.