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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 29, 2001Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 3:26 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2001, 3:26 PM MDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 29, 12:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 43 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-353 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 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 
WFUS55 KPUB 292128
TORPUB

COC061-292230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
326 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 326 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF EADS...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SWEETWATER RESERVOIR AROUND 405 PM MDT
  NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR AROUND 420 PM MDT
  NEE GRANDE RESERVOIR AROUND 425 PM MDT
  QUEENS RESERVOIR AROUND 430 PM MDT

THIS STORM SHOULD PASS WEST OF EADS BUT MAY STILL CAUSE LARGE HAIL 
AND SEVERE WINDS AWAY FROM THE STORM.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...AND A
TORNADO IS VERY NEAR...GO TO A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING AND GET IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


&

LAT...LON 3856 10279 3849 10301 3826 10298 3827 10256

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
May 28, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas119 min
May 28, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso97 min
May 28, 7:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso64 min
May 28, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont96 min
May 28, 8:28 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas62 min
May 28, 8:30 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
May 28, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso71 min
May 28, 9:18 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso57 min
May 28, 10:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas2 hr
May 28, 10:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso59 min
May 28, 11:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso27 min
May 29, 11:52 AM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers53 min
May 29, 12:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa62 min
May 29, 12:46 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers59 min
May 29, 1:15 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas60 min
May 29, 1:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers61 min
May 29, 2:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas60 min
May 29, 2:28 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas62 min
May 29, 2:31 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa59 min
May 29, 2:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso53 min
May 29, 2:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa59 min
May 29, 3:32 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers58 min
May 29, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent55 min
May 29, 4:19 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers56 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.