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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 28, 2002Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2002, 4:59 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 2002, 4:59 PM MDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 61 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), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.

464 
WFUS55 KPUB 282259
TORPUB
COC099-290000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 458 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS
  OVER WEST CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF
  LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE 
  HIGHWAY 287 SOUTH OF LAMAR...
  OPEN COUNTRY OF WESTERN 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 3798 10250 3798 10271 3765 10272 3765 10244

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, 4:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	60 min
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, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	87 min
Aug 28, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	64 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.