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Tornado Watch 378

June 6, 202519 counties in Colorado

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2025, 1:49 PM MDT for 19 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2025, 1:49 PM MDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

Counties Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	45 min
Jun 6, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	43 min
Jun 6, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
Jun 6, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	32 min
Jun 6, 2:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	21 min
Jun 6, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Las Animas	40 min
Jun 6, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	34 min
Jun 6, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	47 min
Jun 6, 3:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	17 min
Jun 6, 3:52 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	23 min
Jun 6, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	El Paso	36 min
Jun 6, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	24 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	51 min
Jun 6, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca	31 min
Jun 6, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Kit Carson	57 min
Jun 6, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Pueblo	39 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 6, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	31 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	47 min
Jun 6, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca	31 min
Jun 6, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	30 min
Jun 6, 4:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	27 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	50 min
Jun 6, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	15 min
Jun 6, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	33 min
Jun 6, 5:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	26 min
Jun 6, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	34 min
Jun 6, 5:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	33 min
Jun 6, 5:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	24 min
Jun 6, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	49 min
Jun 6, 5:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	28 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	48 min
Jun 6, 6:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	32 min
Jun 6, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	27 min
Jun 6, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	66 min
Jun 6, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero	51 min
Jun 6, 6:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	31 min
Jun 6, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	24 min
Jun 6, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	32 min
Jun 6, 8:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca	32 min
Jun 6, 8:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	24 min
Jun 6, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca	25 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 310 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:15 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers	90 min
Jun 5, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Kiowa, Prowers	5 hr
Jun 6, 12:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 16 more	96 min
Jun 6, 3:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca	90 min
Jun 6, 5:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 3 more	90 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.