Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1998, 3:00 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1998, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:55 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | La Junta, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2351 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 58 min |
| May 8, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 61 min |
| May 8, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 65 min |
| May 8, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| May 8, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 60 min |
| May 8, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.