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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 22, 2010Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2010, 2:02 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 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: Apr 22, 2010, 2:02 PM MDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2010, 2:27 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 22, 12:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

767 
WFUS55 KPUB 222002
TORPUB
COC061-099-222100-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0005.100422T2002Z-100422T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
202 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

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 300 PM MDT

* AT 159 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY...OR 24 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GRANADA...HOLLY AND HARTMAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3781 10215 3786 10237 3846 10221 3828 10203
      3795 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 204DEG 28KT 3793 10221

$$

2 follow-up statements

127 
WWUS55 KPUB 222011
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
211 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

COC061-099-222100-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-100422T2100Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
211 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND
NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM MDT...

AT 208 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRANADA...OR 20 MILES EAST OF
LAMAR...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

THE CIRCULATION WITH THIS STORM HAS WEAKENED SLIGHTLY...BUT THIS 
STORM CAN STILL RAPIDLY PRODUCE A TORNADO.  THIS STORM CAN ALSO 
PRODUCE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GRANADA...HOLLY AND HARTMAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3796 10234 3846 10221 3828 10203 3795 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 199DEG 32KT 3802 10225

$$

279 
WWUS55 KPUB 222027
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
227 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

COC061-099-222036-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-100422T2100Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
227 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN
PROWERS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3796 10234 3846 10221 3828 10203 3795 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 199DEG 32KT 3815 10219

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	60 min
Apr 21, 7:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	65 min
Apr 22, 12:19 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	21 min
Apr 22, 12:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero	64 min
Apr 22, 1:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	58 min
Apr 22, 1:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	65 min
Apr 22, 1:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	64 min
Apr 22, 2:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	54 min
Apr 22, 2:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero	66 min
Apr 22, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	35 min
Apr 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	66 min
Apr 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	32 min
Apr 22, 3:17 PM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more	45 hr
Apr 22, 3:17 PM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont	39 hr
Apr 22, 3:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.