Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2005, 5:32 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 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, 2005, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2005, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elbert County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBOU 152332 TORBOU COC039-160000- /O.NEW.KBOU.TO.W.0005.050515T2332Z-050516T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 532 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 529 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE WARNED COUNTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3927 10372 3927 10385 3905 10386 3905 10372 $$ RPK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KBOU 152345 SVSBOU SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 546 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 COC039-160000- /O.CON.KBOU.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050516T0000Z/ ELBERT CO- 546 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY... AT 542 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE WARNED COUNTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3927 10372 3927 10385 3905 10386 3905 10372 $$ RPK
000 WWUS55 KBOU 160000 SVSBOU SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 600 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 COC039-160010- /O.EXP.KBOU.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-050516T0000Z/ ELBERT CO- 600 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 600 PM MDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3927 10372 3927 10385 3905 10386 3905 10372 $$ RPK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.