Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 7:23 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 97 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2001, 7:23 PM MDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:23 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 105 E | Ellicott, CO | |
| May 28, 7:25 PM MDT | Tornado F2 | Ellicott, CO | |
| May 28, 7:28 PM MDT | Tornado F2 | Ellicott, CO | A slow moving supercell thunderstorm stayed over the Ellicott area of eastern El Paso county for over an hour on Memorial Day evening. For over an hour, heavy rain and large hail pelted the area. Then another thunderstorm cell merged with the supercell, cau |
| May 28, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Ellicott, CO | A small, brief tornado occurred over open country with no damage or injuries. |
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 28, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 290124 SVRPUB COC041-290300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 723 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 723 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELLICOTT...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CALHAN AROUND 750 PM MDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WIND DRIVEN VERY LARGE...DAMAGING HAIL IS LIKELY. GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WHICH COULD INTENSIFY AND PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE WARNING GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. LAT...LON 3890 10449 3877 10433 3905 10386 3924 10410
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| May 28, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 119 min |
| May 28, 7:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| May 28, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 96 min |
| May 28, 8:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| May 28, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| May 28, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 71 min |
| May 28, 9:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
| May 28, 10:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| May 28, 11:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 27 min |
| May 29, 11:52 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 53 min |
| May 29, 12:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 29, 12:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| May 29, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 29, 1:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 61 min |
| May 29, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| May 29, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 2:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 53 min |
| May 29, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 58 min |
| May 29, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 55 min |
| May 29, 4:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.