Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2023
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2023, 8:01 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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 22, 2023, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2023, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.5 in
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 22, 8:08 PM MDT | TORNADO | 6 Sse Peyton, CO | Brief Cone Tornado touched down for 2 minutes. |
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 22, 12:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 355 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 5541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
193
WFUS55 KPUB 230201
TORPUB
COC041-230230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0037.230623T0201Z-230623T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
801 PM MDT Thu Jun 22 2023
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northeastern El Paso County in east central Colorado...
* Until 830 PM MDT.
* At 801 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Peyton, or 22 miles east of Colorado Springs,
moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado and ping pong ball size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northeastern El Paso County.
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 you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 3891 10447 3898 10448 3902 10430 3887 10427
TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 290DEG 10KT 3895 10443
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.50 IN
$$
PSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Elbert | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 6:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 31 min |
| Jun 22, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 81 min |
| Jun 22, 7:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 7:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 7:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 7:56 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 42 hr |
| Jun 22, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 9:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 1:34 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 3 days |
| Jun 23, 1:22 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 21 days |
| Jun 23, 2:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 3:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 3:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 4:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 5:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 5:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 32 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.