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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 2013Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2013, 12:17 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 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: Aug 4, 2013, 12:17 AM MDT (06:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2013, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

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 06:21 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 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: 919 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

451 
WFUS55 KPUB 040617
TORPUB
COC061-099-040645-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0012.130804T0617Z-130804T0645Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1217 AM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

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 1245 AM MDT

* AT 1216 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARTMAN...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
           ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS
           WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS
           LIKELY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN PROWERS 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3811 10223 3832 10228 3832 10203 3811 10203
      3808 10203 3808 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0617Z 299DEG 23KT 3823 10213

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$
SR

1 follow-up statement

275 
WWUS55 KPUB 040635
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1235 AM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

COC061-099-040645-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-130804T0645Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
1235 AM MDT SUN AUG 4 2013

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

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3811 10223 3832 10228 3832 10203 3811 10203
      3808 10203 3808 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0635Z 299DEG 23KT 3817 10200

$$
SR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 6:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	63 min
Aug 3, 6:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	56 min
Aug 3, 6:50 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	40 min
Aug 3, 7:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 3, 9:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 3, 9:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 3, 10:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa	3 hr
Aug 3, 11:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Las Animas, Prowers	3 hr
Aug 4, 12:19 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	26 min
Aug 4, 2:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
Aug 4, 4:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	47 min
Aug 4, 5:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Mineral	3 hr

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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.