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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 2013, 2:21 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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
- Jul 25, 2013, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2013, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:22 PM MDT | TORNADO | 8 Nw Walsh, CO | LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED TORNADO NORTHWEST OF WALSH. LOCATION ESTIMATED. |
| Jul 25, 2:34 PM MDT | TORNADO | 6 Ne Two Buttes, CO | NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TORNADO NEAR PROWERS AND BACA COUNTY LINE NORTHEAST OF TWO BUTTES. TORNADO HAS BEEN ON GROUND FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
519
WFUS55 KPUB 252021
TORPUB
COC009-099-252045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0008.130725T2021Z-130725T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 PM MDT THU JUL 25 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
SOUTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 245 PM MDT
* AT 216 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TWO BUTTES...
AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO.
IMPACT...SPORADIC DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WALSH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3731 10224 3750 10249 3773 10233 3761 10203
3756 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 327DEG 11KT 3756 10231
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 9:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 2:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 26 min |
| Jul 25, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 39 min |
| Jul 25, 3:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 5:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.