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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 2015Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2015, 5:41 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 18 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, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2015, 5:59 PM MDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
0.75 in

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 4:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2015-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 97 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2015-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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The text

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

644 
WFUS55 KPUB 242341
TORPUB
COC099-250015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0024.150524T2341Z-150525T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
541 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 615 PM MDT
    
* AT 541 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF GRANADA...OR 19 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  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 3783 10237 3790 10243 3804 10228 3786 10214
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 229DEG 16KT 3791 10234 

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

$$

HODANISH
1 follow-up statement
474 
WWUS55 KPUB 242359
SVSPUB

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

COC099-250009-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0024.000000T0000Z-150525T0015Z/
PROWERS CO-
559 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3783 10237 3790 10243 3804 10228 3786 10214
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 229DEG 16KT 3796 10226 

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 6:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo92 min
May 23, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo38 min
May 23, 8:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers88 min
May 23, 9:24 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBBent, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers3 hr
May 23, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller47 min
May 23, 10:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa, Prowers84 min
May 23, 10:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso84 min
May 24, 12:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso23 min
May 24, 1:06 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso114 min
May 24, 1:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas44 min
May 24, 1:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas31 min
May 24, 2:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent49 min
May 24, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas34 min
May 24, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers45 min
May 24, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers33 min
May 24, 3:36 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers24 min
May 24, 3:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBBent, Prowers3 hr
May 24, 3:50 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers40 min
May 24, 4:25 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers50 min
May 24, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers49 min
May 24, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers64 min
May 24, 4:59 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBProwers3 hr
May 24, 5:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers38 min
May 24, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers49 min
May 24, 5:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Bent, Prowers48 min
May 24, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Prowers36 min
May 24, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers25 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.