Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997

Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 1997Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1997, 3:03 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1997, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1997, 3:35 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 476 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 242103 RRA
TORPUB
COC099-242135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
303 PM MDT SAT MAY 24 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  CENTRAL AND EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 335 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  THE OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HOLLY THROUGH 330 PM

* AT 255 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF COLORADO
 L BY 330 PM.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

MM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers33 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.