Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2007, 4:41 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2007, 4:41 PM MDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2007, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:07 PM MDT | HAIL 0.25 | 5 W Granada, CO | |
| Apr 21, 5:07 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 5 W Granada, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 212240 TORPUB COC061-099-212345- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0004.070421T2241Z-070421T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 441 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 545 PM MDT... * AT 436 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANADA...OR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GRANADA. HARTMAN. SHERIDAN LAKE. DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 3788 10262 3777 10236 3833 10205 3852 10232 $$
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS55 KPUB 212248
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
447 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007
COC061-099-212345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070421T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
447 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTIES...
AT 444 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GRANADA...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRANADA.
BRISTOL.
HARTMAN.
SHERIDAN LAKE.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3788 10262 3777 10236 3833 10205 3852 10232
3805 10252
$$000
WWUS55 KPUB 212303
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
502 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007
COC061-099-212345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070421T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
502 PM MDT SAT APR 21 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTIES...
AT 501 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR GRANADA...OR
14 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45
MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BRISTOL.
HARTMAN.
SHERIDAN LAKE.
LAT...LON 3788 10262 3777 10236 3833 10205 3852 10232
3805 10252
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 66 min |
| Apr 21, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 5:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.