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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 2015El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2015, 12:37 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 23 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: May 24, 2015, 12:37 PM MDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2015, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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.

503 
WFUS55 KPUB 241837
TORPUB
COC041-241900-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0019.150524T1837Z-150524T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1237 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 100 PM MDT

* AT 1236 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FOUNTAIN...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO
  SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD OVER FORT CARSON. 

  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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SOUTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS AROUND 1245 PM MDT.
  SECURITY-WIDEFIELD AND FORT CARSON AROUND 1250 PM MDT.
  SECURITY AND STRATMOOR AROUND 1255 PM MDT.
  FOUNTAIN AROUND 1255 PM MDT.

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 3853 10479 3863 10492 3879 10475 3865 10465
TIME...MOT...LOC 1836Z 218DEG 20KT 3865 10479 

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

$$

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2 follow-up statements

665 
WWUS55 KPUB 241851
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1251 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

COC041-241900-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-150524T1900Z/
EL PASO CO-
1251 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY...
        
AT 1250 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER SECURITY-WIDEFIELD...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD EARLIER WITH THIS 
         STORM. 

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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COLORADO SPRINGS AND SECURITY-WIDEFIELD AROUND 1255 PM MDT.

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 3855 10476 3866 10486 3879 10475 3865 10465
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 218DEG 20KT 3871 10473 

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

$$

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517 
WWUS55 KPUB 241858
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1258 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

COC041-241907-
/O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-150524T1900Z/
EL PASO CO-
1258 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
100 PM MDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING IS NO LONGER PRODUCING A FUNNEL 
CLOUD...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...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LAT...LON 3855 10476 3866 10486 3879 10475 3865 10465
TIME...MOT...LOC 1855Z 218DEG 20KT 3871 10473 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 6:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	92 min
May 23, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	38 min
May 23, 8:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers	88 min
May 23, 9:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers	3 hr
May 23, 9:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	47 min
May 23, 10:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	84 min
May 23, 10:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	84 min
May 24, 1:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	114 min
May 24, 1:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
May 24, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	31 min
May 24, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	49 min
May 24, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	34 min
May 24, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	45 min
May 24, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	33 min
May 24, 3:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	24 min
May 24, 3:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Prowers	3 hr
May 24, 3:50 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	40 min
May 24, 4:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	50 min
May 24, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	49 min
May 24, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	64 min
May 24, 4:59 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Prowers	3 hr
May 24, 5:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	38 min
May 24, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	49 min
May 24, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	48 min
May 24, 5:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	18 min
May 24, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	36 min
May 24, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	25 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.