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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 28, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 8:28 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 28, 2001, 8:28 PM MDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2001, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 28, 8:31 PM MDTTornado F0Hoehne, COA brief touch down occurred, damaging a garage.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 28, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 290229
TORPUB
COC071-290330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
828 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 826 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A      
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR THE TRINIDAD AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES   
  NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...  
  CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AROUND HOEHNE AND MODEL

AT 825 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A FUNNEL CLOUD 1 
MILE NORTHWEST OF THE TRINIDAD AIRPORT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME 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 GkET IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&

LAT...LON 3738 10443 3720 10440 3722 10367 3749 10370

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, 8:30 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, 3:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.