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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 2001Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2001, 3:44 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 31, 2001, 3:44 PM MDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
61 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), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 2001-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 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 312145
TORPUB

COC061-312245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
344 PM MDT THU MAY 31 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 344 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13
  MILES NORTH OF EADS...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

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

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY
IN THE WARNED AREA.

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 3877 10272 3871 10294 3827 10284 3827 10248

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa60 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.