Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2008, 4:40 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 15, 2008, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2008, 5:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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 152240
TORPUB
COC061-099-152345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0019.080815T2240Z-080815T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
440 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 545 PM MDT...
* AT 438 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. OVER
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
TRIBUNE...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 8 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN PROWERS
COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN 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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3835 10233 3844 10222 3839 10203 3822 10204
3821 10203 3799 10204 3799 10206
TIME...MOT...LOC 2240Z 287DEG 7KT 3832 10217
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS55 KPUB 152300
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
500 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
COC061-099-152345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-080815T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
457 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES...
AT 455 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS THAT THE FUNNEL CLOUD HAS
LIFTED. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED OVER SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA
COUNTY...OR 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRIBUNE...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD
THE EAST AT 8 MPH.
THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
PROWERS COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY.
THIS STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3835 10233 3844 10222 3839 10203 3822 10204
3821 10203 3799 10204 3799 10206
TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 287DEG 7KT 3831 10213
$$000
WWUS55 KPUB 152310
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
510 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
COC061-099-152320-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-080815T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
510 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND
NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES...
HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.
LAT...LON 3835 10233 3844 10222 3839 10203 3822 10204
3821 10203 3799 10204 3799 10206
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 287DEG 7KT 3830 10210
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 73 min |
| Aug 14, 8:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 8:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 12:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 72 min |
| Aug 15, 12:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Custer | 46 min |
| Aug 15, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 3:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more | 56 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Costilla, Huerfano | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 69 min |
| Aug 15, 4:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 119 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.