Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 8:30 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 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), 46 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Karval, CO | A small tornado touched down but did no damage. |
| May 28, 8:35 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Rush, CO | A brief touchdown occurred with no known damage. |
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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.
241 WFUS55 KPUB 290234 TORPUB COC041-290330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 830 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * AT 830 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR A TORNADO WAS 7 MILES SOUTH OF RUSH... OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY. AT 829 PM...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF RUSH. 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 10419 3863 10405 3887 10354 3909 10375
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, 8:49 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.