Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 11:52 AM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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 29, 2001, 11:52 AM MDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 12:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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, 12:07 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Lamar, CO | |
| May 29, 12:40 PM MDT | Hail 3 | Lamar, CO | The thunderstorms that spawned seven tornadoes west of Lamar, brought giant hail between golf ball and baseball size to Lamar. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
287 WFUS55 KPUB 291753 TORPUB COC061-099-291845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1152 AM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1245 PM MDT * AT 1152 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WHICH HAS PRODUCED A TORNADO NEAR LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... WESTERN PROWERS...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS...NORTHERN PROWERS... SOUTHERN KIOWA AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES AT 1148 PM LOCAL OFFICIALS SAW A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF LAMAR. 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 3806 10277 3793 10261 3829 10206 3849 10231
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, 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.