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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2005, 5:42 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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 30, 2005, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2005, 6:32 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 30, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 KPUB 302342 TORPUB COC009-071-310045- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0002.050530T2342Z-050531T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 542 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT. * AT 541 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 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRITCHETT...OR 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DONT LOOK FOR THE TORNADO. FIND YOUR SAFE SPOT NOW 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 3760 10317 3744 10313 3750 10270 3766 10274 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 310008 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 608 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 COC071-310018- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050531T0045Z/ LAS ANIMAS CO- 608 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LAS ANIMAS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... AT 603 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LIGHTNING...THE WEATHER NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY IN THIS AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3763 10307 3753 10306 3751 10268 3764 10273 $$ COC009-310045- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050531T0045Z/ BACA CO- 608 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM MDT... AT 603 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ROTATION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED OVER NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY. 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 3763 10307 3753 10306 3751 10268 3764 10273 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 310032 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 628 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 COC009-310045- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050531T0045Z/ BACA CO- 628 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BACA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... AT 624 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LIGHTNING...THE WEATHER NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY IN THIS AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3763 10307 3753 10306 3751 10268 3764 10273 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas | 55 min |
| May 30, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| May 30, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 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.