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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 16, 2015Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2015, 8:26 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 21 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 16, 2015, 8:26 PM MDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2015, 8:47 PM MDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 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.

260 
WFUS55 KPUB 170226
TORPUB
COC061-099-170300-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0001.150417T0226Z-150417T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
826 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 900 PM MDT
    
* AT 826 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER HOLLY...OR 7 MILES WEST OF COOLIDGE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES.

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 YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3795 10213 3807 10226 3832 10205 3799 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0226Z 228DEG 28KT 3804 10214 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

LW

2 follow-up statements

104 
WWUS55 KPUB 170236
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
835 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015

COC061-099-170300-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-150417T0300Z/
KIOWA CO-PROWERS CO-
835 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES...
    
AT 835 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER HOLLY...OR NEAR COOLIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOLLY.

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 YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3799 10216 3805 10221 3832 10205 3799 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 226DEG 13KT 3806 10213 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

LW

923 
WWUS55 KPUB 170252
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
847 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015

COC061-099-170257-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-150417T0300Z/
KIOWA CO-PROWERS CO-
847 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN
PROWERS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS
AND EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3799 10216 3805 10221 3832 10205 3799 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0245Z 228DEG 28KT 3813 10204 

$$

LW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	44 min
Apr 16, 8:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	38 min
Apr 16, 8:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	29 min
Apr 17, 4:00 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	11 hr
Apr 17, 1:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	27 min
Apr 17, 2:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	29 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.