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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 2011, 8:59 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 15 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
- Oct 7, 2011, 8:59 PM MDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 9:14 PM MDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 5:33 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
469
WFUS55 KPUB 080259
TORPUB
COC009-099-080330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0011.111008T0259Z-111008T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
859 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 930 PM MDT
* AT 857 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...AND
MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BACA AND SOUTHEASTERN
PROWERS COUNTIES.
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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3748 10205 3755 10226 3807 10204 3807 10203
3761 10203 3751 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 0259Z 200DEG 50KT 3760 10211
$$3 follow-up statements
173 WWUS55 KPUB 080304 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 904 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 COC009-099-080330- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-111008T0330Z/ BACA CO-PROWERS CO- 904 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM MDT... AT 902 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BACA AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3748 10205 3759 10222 3779 10203 3751 10203 TIME...MOT...LOC 0304Z 200DEG 51KT 3760 10206 $$
945 WWUS55 KPUB 080311 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 911 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 COC009-099-080330- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-111008T0330Z/ BACA CO-PROWERS CO- 911 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM MDT... AT 908 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTH OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY. 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3748 10205 3759 10222 3779 10203 3751 10203 TIME...MOT...LOC 0311Z 200DEG 51KT 3767 10203 $$
700 WWUS55 KPUB 080314 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 914 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 COC009-099-080324- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-111008T0330Z/ BACA CO-PROWERS CO- 914 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3748 10205 3759 10222 3779 10203 3751 10203 TIME...MOT...LOC 0314Z 200DEG 51KT 3768 10195 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 8:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 20 min |
| Oct 8, 4:43 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | PUB | Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Oct 8, 2:49 PM MDT | Freeze Warning | PUB | Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas and 3 more | 18 hr |
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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.