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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 28, 2015Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2015, 2:43 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2015, 2:43 PM MDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2015, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.75 in

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 2:51 PM MDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	8 Se Kim, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 28, 1:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 1281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -203 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

328 
WFUS55 KPUB 282043
TORPUB
COC071-282130-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0026.150528T2043Z-150528T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
243 PM MDT THU MAY 28 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 242 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF 
  KIM...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 
  MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  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 LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3720 10357 3749 10335 3729 10310 3700 10312
      3700 10344
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 228DEG 9KT 3708 10334 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HODANISH

2 follow-up statements

979 
WWUS55 KPUB 282050
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
250 PM MDT THU MAY 28 2015

COC071-282130-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-150528T2130Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
250 PM MDT THU MAY 28 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...
    
AT 248 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF 
KIM...OR 36 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 
MPH. ANOTHER TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF KIM. 
THIS CIRCULATION WAS ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

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...
KIM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3720 10357 3749 10335 3729 10310 3700 10312
      3700 10344
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 228DEG 9KT 3709 10332 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HODANISH

912 
WWUS55 KPUB 282058
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
258 PM MDT THU MAY 28 2015

COC071-282130-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-150528T2130Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
258 PM MDT THU MAY 28 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...
    
AT 258 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTH OF KIM...OR 36 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES
MOINES...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND TWO INCH 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...
KIM.

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 3720 10357 3749 10335 3729 10310 3700 10312
      3700 10344
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 273DEG 17KT 3705 10327 

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

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 12:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		36 min
May 28, 1:03 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	7 days
May 28, 1:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	48 min
May 28, 2:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		52 min
May 28, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	54 min
May 28, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	43 min
May 28, 3:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	52 min
May 28, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	47 min
May 28, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	38 min
May 28, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	42 min
May 28, 3:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	34 min
May 28, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	37 min
May 28, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	47 min
May 28, 4:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	9 min
May 28, 4:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	40 min
May 28, 4:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	42 min
May 28, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	21 min
May 28, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	35 min
May 28, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	49 min
May 28, 5:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	41 min
May 28, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.