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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 25, 2014Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2014, 5:53 PM MDT for Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 19 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 25, 2014, 5:53 PM MDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2014, 6:12 PM MDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

Counties Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
Aug 25, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

413 
WFUS55 KPUB 252353
TORPUB
COC043-101-260030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0017.140825T2353Z-140826T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
553 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
    
* AT 553 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PENROSE...OR 16 MILES WEST
  OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR 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. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PENROSE...PUEBLO RESERVOIR AND PUEBLO WEST. 

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 3828 10500 3841 10510 3850 10478 3827 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 257DEG 19KT 3835 10490 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN

$$

HODANISH

1 follow-up statement

790 
WWUS55 KPUB 260012
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
612 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014

COC043-101-260021-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-140826T0030Z/
PUEBLO CO-FREMONT CO-
612 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO AND SOUTHEASTERN
FREMONT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY
AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
PUEBLO COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM.

LAT...LON 3828 10500 3841 10510 3850 10478 3827 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 257DEG 19KT 3837 10478 

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	30 min
Aug 25, 2:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	24 min
Aug 25, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	37 min
Aug 25, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Douglas	32 min
Aug 25, 4:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	59 min
Aug 25, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	26 min
Aug 25, 4:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	27 min
Aug 25, 4:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	36 min
Aug 25, 5:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	26 min
Aug 25, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	51 min
Aug 25, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	47 min
Aug 25, 5:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Aug 25, 5:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	30 min
Aug 25, 5:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	25 min
Aug 25, 5:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	115 min
Aug 25, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	18 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.