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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 25, 2014Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2014, 7:39 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 25, 2014, 7:39 PM MDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2014, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 25, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 2000 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

572 
WFUS55 KPUB 260139
TORPUB
COC099-260215-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0011.140626T0139Z-140626T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
739 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
    
* AT 739 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER HARTMAN...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  COOLIDGE...AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER 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...
  HARTMAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 3807 10213 3809 10227 3823 10226 3820 10207
TIME...MOT...LOC 0139Z 247DEG 2KT 3812 10221 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

329 
WWUS55 KPUB 260150
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
750 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014

COC099-260215-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-140626T0215Z/
PROWERS CO-
750 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY...
    
AT 749 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER HARTMAN...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF COOLIDGE...AND IS
NEARLY STATIONARY.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER 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...
HARTMAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 3807 10213 3809 10227 3823 10226 3820 10207
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 182DEG 1KT 3812 10223 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	34 min
Jun 25, 6:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	29 min
Jun 25, 7:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	29 min
Jun 25, 7:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	49 min
Jun 25, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	38 min
Jun 25, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	45 min
Jun 25, 8:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	32 min
Jun 25, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	34 min
Jun 26, 1:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	30 min
Jun 26, 2:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.