Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2013, 5:32 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2013, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2013, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.25 in
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:51 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 18 S Lamar, CO | |
| Jun 18, 6:05 PM MDT | HAIL 1.25 | 18 S Lamar, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 18, 1:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
762
WFUS55 KPUB 182332
TORPUB
COC099-190000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0005.130618T2332Z-130619T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
532 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 529 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES...AND MOVING
EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS
WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY CROSSING HIGHWAY
287 24 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3787 10244 3765 10236 3764 10273 3779 10274
TIME...MOT...LOC 2332Z 255DEG 9KT 3771 10264
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN
$$1 follow-up statement
435
WWUS55 KPUB 182342
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
542 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013
COC099-190000-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-130619T0000Z/
PROWERS CO-
542 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PROWERS
COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM MDT...
AT 538 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES...AND MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL
BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY INCLUDING
HIGHWAY 287 SOUTH OF LAMAR.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST
RESORT...PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT.
&&
LAT...LON 3765 10264 3781 10267 3787 10244 3765 10236
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 255DEG 9KT 3772 10261
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 8:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Prowers | 103 min |
| Jun 18, 3:58 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 35 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:58 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 40 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 5:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.