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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2012, 2:43 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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 27, 2012, 2:43 AM MDT (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2012, 3:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
726 WFUS55 KPUB 270843 TORPUB COC061-099-270915- /O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0008.120427T0843Z-120427T0915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 243 AM MDT FRI APR 27 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... NORTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 315 AM MDT * AT 242 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A CONFIRMED TORNADO 9 MILES EAST OF QUEENS RESERVOIR...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY. 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM MDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3838 10257 3832 10230 3815 10245 3819 10258 TIME...MOT...LOC 0844Z 192DEG 33KT 3829 10247 $$
1 follow-up statement
055 WWUS55 KPUB 270908 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 308 AM MDT FRI APR 27 2012 COC061-099-270918- /O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120427T0915Z/ PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO- 308 AM MDT FRI APR 27 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA AND NORTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 315 AM MDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM MDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3838 10257 3832 10230 3815 10245 3819 10258 TIME...MOT...LOC 0908Z 192DEG 33KT 3851 10241 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 10:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 22 min |
| Apr 27, 12:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 53 min |
| Apr 27, 12:46 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 1:25 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 1:44 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 19 min |
| Apr 27, 1:55 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 2:21 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 2:56 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 13 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.