Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 40, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2010, 8:19 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 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
- Jul 4, 2010, 8:19 PM MDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2010, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 638 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
299
WFUS55 KPUB 050219
TORPUB
COC041-050315-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0040.100705T0219Z-100705T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
819 PM MDT SUN JUL 4 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 915 PM MDT
* AT 815 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PEYTON...OR 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO
SPRINGS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PEYTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3912 10431 3893 10450 3905 10465 3913 10462
3913 10432
TIME...MOT...LOC 0219Z 240DEG 15KT 3902 10449
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 6:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 7:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 8:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 8:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 9:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 9:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 9:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 10:41 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 19 min |
| Jul 5, 1:37 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 113 min |
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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.