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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 2003Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 4:13 PM MDT for Kiowa 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2003, 4:13 PM MDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
May 15, 12:55 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

988 
WFUS55 KPUB 152213
TORPUB
COC061-152315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 413 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS 6 MILES WEST OF CHIVINGTON...OR ABOUT 27
  MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  CENTRAL KIOWA...NORTHERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS GUSTING TO OVER 70 MPH 
ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA.

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 3850 10278 3836 10262 3883 10184 3903 10206

$$

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, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
May 15, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	66 min
May 15, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	62 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.