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Tornado Watch 487
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 13, 2023, 4:02 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; Hamilton County, Morton County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2023, 4:02 PM MDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2023, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Hamilton County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 4:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 27 min |
| Jul 13, 4:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 17 min |
| Jul 13, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero, Pueblo | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 66 min |
| Jul 13, 7:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 8:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 9:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 9:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers | 83 min |
| Jul 12, 6:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Cherokee and 24 more | 94 min |
| Jul 12, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 12, 10:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more | 118 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.