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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 2015Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2015, 5:07 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2015, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.0 in

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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
May 24, 4:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 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.

702 
WFUS55 KPUB 242307
TORPUB
COC099-242345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0023.150524T2307Z-150524T2345Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT
    
* AT 507 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTH OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. 

  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
  CENTRAL PROWERS 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 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 3781 10246 3782 10258 3793 10261 3810 10239
      3791 10215
TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 230DEG 17KT 3787 10251 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN

$$

HODANISH

2 follow-up statements

724 
WWUS55 KPUB 242320
SVSPUB

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

COC099-242345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-150524T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-
520 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL
PROWERS COUNTY...
    
AT 519 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTH OF GRANADA...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED INTENSE 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
CENTRAL PROWERS 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 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 3781 10246 3784 10251 3799 10253 3810 10239
      3791 10215
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 259DEG 17KT 3785 10241 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.75IN

$$

HODANISH

616 
WWUS55 KPUB 242334
SVSPUB

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

COC099-242345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-150524T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-
534 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL
PROWERS COUNTY...
    
AT 534 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTH OF GRANADA...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND BASEBALL 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
CENTRAL PROWERS 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 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 3782 10242 3795 10247 3803 10230 3791 10215
TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 230DEG 17KT 3790 10234 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.75IN

$$

HODANISH

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, 12:37 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 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, 5:11 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.