Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 2008, 3:26 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 16, 2008, 3:26 PM MDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2008, 3:59 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:26 PM MDT | TORNADO | 12 E Mosca, CO | |
| Aug 16, 3:26 PM MDT | TORNADO | 8 E Mosca, CO | REVISED LOCATION. TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ONLY A FEW MINUTES ACCORDING TO EYE WITNESSES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 162126 TORPUB COC003-023-055-109-162230- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0021.080816T2126Z-080816T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 326 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... EASTERN ALAMOSA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... NORTHWESTERN COSTILLA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 430 PM MDT... * AT 324 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WHICH WAS RAPIDLY ROTATING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SAN LUIS LAKE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALAMOSA...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 27 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GREAT SAND DUNES. 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 3776 10541 3739 10560 3756 10582 3773 10574 TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 290DEG 24KT 3761 10566 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KPUB 162134 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 334 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008 COC003-023-055-109-162230- /O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080816T2230Z/ HUERFANO CO-COSTILLA CO-ALAMOSA CO-SAGUACHE CO- 333 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SAGUACHE...EASTERN ALAMOSA...NORTHWESTERN COSTILLA AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES... AT 328 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR SAN LUIS LAKE...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALAMOSA...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 23 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GREAT SAND DUNES. AT 324 PM MDT LOCAL OFFICIALS SAW A TORNADO 12 MILES EAST OF MOSCA. THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF VERY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3776 10541 3739 10560 3756 10582 3773 10574 TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 285DEG 20KT 3761 10562 $$
000 WWUS55 KPUB 162159 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 359 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008 COC003-023-055-109-162210- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080816T2230Z/ HUERFANO CO-COSTILLA CO-ALAMOSA CO-SAGUACHE CO- 400 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SAGUACHE...EASTERN ALAMOSA...NORTHWESTERN COSTILLA AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES... HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3776 10541 3739 10560 3756 10582 3773 10574 TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 285DEG 20KT 3757 10544 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 9:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Bent, Otero | 109 min |
| Aug 16, 3:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 7:14 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 18 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:14 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | Bent | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 1:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Rio Grande, Saguache | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 1:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache | 58 min |
| Aug 16, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 63 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.