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Tornado Watch 315

May 23, 200520 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2005, 2:20 PM MDT for 20 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2005, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2005, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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.

Warnings issued inside it

31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 2:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln42 min
May 23, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso20 min
May 23, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson40 min
May 23, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln21 min
May 23, 3:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne67 min
May 23, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson31 min
May 23, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington25 min
May 23, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma36 min
May 23, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins61 min
May 23, 4:21 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma24 min
May 23, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase66 min
May 23, 4:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne52 min
May 23, 4:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas64 min
May 23, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson28 min
May 23, 4:47 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma28 min
May 23, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy62 min
May 23, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln56 min
May 23, 5:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma86 min
May 23, 5:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase64 min
May 23, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne32 min
May 23, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca20 min
May 23, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo75 min
May 23, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington41 min
May 23, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln64 min
May 23, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley81 min
May 23, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero64 min
May 23, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma43 min
May 23, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma47 min
May 23, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa57 min
May 23, 8:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace38 min
May 23, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace25 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 1:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 7 more67 min
May 23, 4:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 14 more87 min
May 22, 8:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more117 min
May 22, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 14 more6 hr
May 22, 10:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 14 more115 min
May 23, 1:31 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 14 more59 min
May 23, 2:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChautauqua8 hr
May 23, 5:48 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua87 min
May 23, 3:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery84 min
May 23, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDecatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray and 17 more5 hr

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.