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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 2015Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2015, 6:06 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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, 6:06 PM MDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2015, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.25 in

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

697 
WFUS55 KPUB 250006
TORPUB
COC009-099-250030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0025.150525T0006Z-150525T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
    
* AT 606 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WALSH...OR 11 MILES WEST OF THE SAUNDERS
  ELEVATOR...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR 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 PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BACA 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 3737 10232 3760 10239 3765 10204 3739 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 272DEG 18KT 3743 10225 

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

$$

SR

2 follow-up statements

613 
WWUS55 KPUB 250018
SVSPUB

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

COC099-250027-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-150525T0030Z/
PROWERS CO-
618 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT 
OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3741 10225 3758 10230 3763 10204 3739 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 254DEG 18KT 3748 10219 

$$

COC009-250030-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-150525T0030Z/
BACA CO-
618 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY...
    
AT 617 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR 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
NORTHEASTERN BACA 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 3741 10225 3758 10230 3763 10204 3739 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 254DEG 18KT 3748 10219 

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

$$
SR

549 
WWUS55 KPUB 250024
SVSPUB

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

COC009-250033-
/O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-150525T0030Z/
BACA CO-
624 PM MDT SUN MAY 24 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
630 PM MDT...
    
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.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3741 10225 3758 10230 3763 10204 3739 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 272DEG 18KT 3748 10219 

$$

SR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	16 min
May 25, 1:06 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	32 hr
May 25, 1:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	48 min
May 25, 2:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	48 min
May 25, 3:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	47 min
May 25, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	89 min
May 25, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	51 min
May 25, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	91 min
May 25, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	56 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.