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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 2005Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2005, 7:23 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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 24, 2005, 7:23 PM MDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2005, 8:06 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 250123
TORPUB
COC061-250200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0001.050525T0123Z-050525T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
723 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT.

* AT 714 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS CENTERED 11 MILES
  SOUTH OF HASWELL...OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL
  KIOWA COUNTY.

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 3853 10301 3827 10321 3827 10234 3853 10233

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 250149
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
748 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005

COC061-250200-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050525T0200Z/
KIOWA CO-
748 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM MDT...

AT 745 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ROTATION.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WAS CENTERED NEAR NEE GRANDE RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST 
OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 
MILES SOUTH OF CHIVINGTON AND ANOTHER OVER SHERIDAN LAKE. SPOTTERS 
REPORTED TELEPHONE POLES SNAPPED 3 MILES WEST OF SHERIDAN LAKE ALONG 
HIGHWAY 96. EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN ALSO REPORTED.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER QUEENS RESERVOIR BY 755 PM MDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE 
HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM MDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3853 10301 3827 10321 3830 10209 3857 10208

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 250206
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
805 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005

COC061-250215-
/O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050525T0200Z/
KIOWA CO-
805 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KIOWA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

AT 758 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE TORNADO THREAT HAD 
DIMINISHED BUT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL 
HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 96.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM MDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3853 10301 3827 10321 3830 10209 3857 10208

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	53 min
May 24, 7:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Kiowa	4 hr
May 24, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	70 min
May 24, 9:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	60 min
May 24, 10:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	26 min
May 24, 11:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Kiowa	6 hr

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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.