Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2009, 7:02 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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 17, 2009, 7:02 PM MDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2009, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 17, 7:24 PM MDT | TORNADO | 12 Ne Bristol, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 180102
TORPUB
COC061-099-180200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0003.090418T0102Z-090418T0200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
702 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 800 PM MDT
* AT 702 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
HOLLY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...WHICH WAS MOVING TOWARD
THE NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARTMAN.
SHERIDAN LAKE.
BRANDON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3793 10216 3854 10253 3862 10226 3862 10220
3821 10203 3797 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0102Z 158DEG 27KT 3805 10209
$$4 follow-up statements
000
WWUS55 KPUB 180112
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
712 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
COC061-099-180200-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090418T0200Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
712 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR EASTERN
KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES...
AT 710 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
CENTERED NEAR HOLLY...OR 28 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE NORTH AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE.
BRANDON.
AT 700 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE SAW A TORNADO
APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLLY..
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3793 10216 3854 10253 3862 10226 3862 10220
3821 10203 3797 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 170DEG 23KT 3811 10210
$$000
WWUS55 KPUB 180127
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
727 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
COC061-099-180200-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090418T0200Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
727 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR EASTERN
KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES...
AT 725 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
CENTERED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARTMAN...OR 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE.
BRANDON.
AT 725 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW A ROPE TORNADO
APPROXIMATELY 9 MILES NORTH OF HARTMAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3793 10216 3854 10253 3862 10226 3862 10220
3821 10203 3797 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0126Z 161DEG 14KT 3824 10216
$$000
WWUS55 KPUB 180152
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
752 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
COC061-180200-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090418T0200Z/
KIOWA CO-
752 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR EASTERN
KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 750 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH RAPID ROTATION CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED 11 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE.
BRANDON.
NO RECENT TORNADO REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED...BUT THIS STORM IS
STILL ROTATING RAPIDLY AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3830 10207 3829 10238 3854 10253 3862 10226
3862 10220
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 161DEG 14KT 3834 10220
$$000
WWUS55 KPUB 180159
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
759 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
COC061-180209-
/O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090418T0200Z/
KIOWA CO-
759 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2009
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 800 PM
MDT...
LAT...LON 3830 10207 3829 10238 3854 10253 3862 10226
3862 10220
TIME...MOT...LOC 0159Z 161DEG 14KT 3837 10221
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 64 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.