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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 17, 2004El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2004, 4:47 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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 17, 2004, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2004, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 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.

597 
WFUS55 KPUB 172247
TORPUB
COC041-172345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
447 PM MDT MON MAY 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 442 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS OVER CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...AND WAS MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY BY 500 PM MDT


THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3880 10437 3864 10449 3852 10427 3852 10406
          3867 10405

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	31 min
May 17, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	65 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.