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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 27, 2014Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2014, 2:30 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 27, 2014, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2014, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.25 in

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Jun 27, 12:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -324 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

099 
WFUS55 KPUB 272030
TORPUB
COC061-272100-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0013.140627T2030Z-140627T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
230 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 300 PM MDT

* AT 229 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF HASWELL...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF WILD HORSE...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  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. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A
BASEMENT OR 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 3856 10308 3862 10309 3862 10257 3861 10256
      3855 10256
TIME...MOT...LOC 2029Z 275DEG 24KT 3861 10301 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

PJC

3 follow-up statements

879 
WWUS55 KPUB 272040
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
240 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

COC061-272100-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140627T2100Z/
KIOWA CO-
240 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...
    
AT 239 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
EADS...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIT CARSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

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. 

THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A
BASEMENT OR 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 3856 10305 3861 10306 3862 10257 3861 10256
      3855 10256
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 276DEG 19KT 3860 10295 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

PJC

049 
WWUS55 KPUB 272044
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
244 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

COC061-272100-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140627T2100Z/
KIOWA CO-
244 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...
    
AT 244 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF EADS...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIT
CARSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

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. 

THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 3856 10303 3861 10303 3862 10257 3861 10256
      3855 10256
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 275DEG 24KT 3860 10291 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

PJC

193 
WWUS55 KPUB 272053
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
253 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

COC061-272103-
/O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140627T2100Z/
KIOWA CO-
253 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
300 PM MDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3856 10303 3861 10303 3862 10257 3861 10256
      3855 10256
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 275DEG 24KT 3860 10291 

$$

PJC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	22 min
Jun 27, 1:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	40 min
Jun 27, 1:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	52 min
Jun 27, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	50 min
Jun 27, 2:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
Jun 27, 3:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 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.