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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 4:19 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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 29, 2001, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 29, 4:32 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Las Animas, 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 29, 12:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 292219 TORPUB COC011-099-292315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 419 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 419 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF WILEY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... WILEY AROUND 430 PM MDT LAMAR AROUND 455 PM MDT 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 3827 10255 3826 10290 3784 10244 3802 10219
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, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 97 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.