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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 28, 2002Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2002, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
Aug 28, 4:23 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Lamar, CO	A tornado moved slowly south across open country causing 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
Aug 28, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 639 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

999 
WFUS55 KPUB 282200
TORPUB
COC099-282300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
359 PM MDT WED AUG 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 359 PM MDT OVER WEST CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  WESTERN PROWERS...CENTRAL PROWERS...SOUTHERN PROWERS AND
  SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTIES

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 3810 10252 3803 10273 3765 10268 3765 10220

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 10:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Aug 28, 1:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	86 min
Aug 28, 1:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 28, 1:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Aug 28, 3:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	60 min
Aug 28, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	2 hr
Aug 28, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	55 min
Aug 28, 3:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Aug 28, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	66 min
Aug 28, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	61 min
Aug 28, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	61 min
Aug 28, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	87 min
Aug 28, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	64 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.