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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 2003Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 3:30 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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: May 15, 2003, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baca County, CO

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 15, 12:55 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

374 
WFUS55 KPUB 152130
TORPUB
COC009-152230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
328 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 328 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS 11 MILES WEST OF PRITCHETT...OR ABOUT 24    
  MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.  ANOTHER   
  STORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO IS 2 MILES SOUTHEAST PRITCHETT.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  PRITCHETT THROUGH 400 PM MDT
  SPRINGFIELD AROUND 355 PM MDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY
IN THE WARNED AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM.

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 3713 10306 3710 10249 3761 10247 3763 10303

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 1:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	64 min
May 15, 2:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Teller	84 min
May 15, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	67 min
May 15, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	62 min
May 15, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	59 min
May 15, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	66 min
May 15, 4:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
May 15, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.