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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 17, 2009El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2009, 3:50 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 18 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 17, 2009, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2009, 4:08 PM MDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 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 172150
TORPUB
COC041-172230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0002.090417T2150Z-090417T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
350 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 350 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 10
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRUCKTON...OR ABOUT 41 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  PUEBLO...WHICH WAS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TRUCKTON.
  ELLICOTT.

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 3878 10404 3857 10405 3861 10453 3891 10446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 109DEG 20KT 3865 10402

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 172157
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
357 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009

COC041-172230-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090417T2230Z/
EL PASO CO-
357 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

AT 353 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO.  THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
CENTERED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRUCKTON...OR 41 MILES NORTHEAST OF
PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TRUCKTON.
  ELLICOTT.

AT 350 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS SAW A TORNADO 10 
MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRUCKTON..

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 3878 10404 3857 10405 3861 10453 3891 10446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 109DEG 20KT 3866 10407

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 172208
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
408 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009

COC041-172218-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090417T2230Z/
EL PASO CO-
408 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009

...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL EL PASO
COUNTY...

HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3878 10404 3857 10405 3861 10453 3891 10446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2208Z 109DEG 20KT 3868 10414

$$

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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.