Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 1:06 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 13 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
- May 24, 2011, 1:06 PM MDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 1:19 PM MDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
535 WFUS55 KPUB 241906 TORPUB COC055-071-241930- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0004.110524T1906Z-110524T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 106 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 130 PM MDT * AT 102 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES EAST OF WALSENBURG...OR 33 MILES NORTH OF TRINIDAD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TYRONE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! 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 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3752 10408 3726 10435 3763 10470 3776 10453 TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 315DEG 39KT 3763 10453 $$ STARK
1 follow-up statement
252 WWUS55 KPUB 241919 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 119 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 COC055-071-241928- /O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-110524T1930Z/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 119 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND EAST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO...INCLUDING KIOWA... PROWERS...AND BACA COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LAT...LON 3752 10408 3726 10435 3763 10470 3776 10453 TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 310DEG 24KT 3765 10453 $$ STARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 52 min |
| May 24, 9:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 24 min |
| May 24, 12:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 54 min |
| May 24, 12:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 62 min |
| May 24, 1:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 28 min |
| May 24, 1:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 42 min |
| May 24, 2:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 22 min |
| May 24, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 35 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.