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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 29, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 2:28 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 29, 2001, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2001, 3:30 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), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 419 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 292029
TORPUB

COC071-292130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
228 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 228 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11
  MILES SOUTH OF TOBE...OR ABOUT 46 MILES EAST OF RATON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOBE AROUND 315 PM MDT

AT 225 PM THE PUBLIC SAW A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST EAST OF BRANSON MOVING 
NORTHEAST.

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 3716 10376 3703 10360 3739 10306 3758 10330

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, 2:31 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

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.