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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 4, 2015El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2015, 5:16 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 4, 2015, 5:16 PM MDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2015, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 29 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), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Jun 4, 5:41 PM MDT	TORNADO	2 E Ramah, CO	LIFTED AT APPROXIMATELY 545 PM.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 1510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

206 
WFUS55 KPUB 042316
TORPUB
COC041-042345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0030.150604T2316Z-150604T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
516 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 516 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SIMLA...OR 22 MILES WEST OF LIMON...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD. 

  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...
  RAMAH AROUND 540 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 3907 10405 3902 10406 3900 10424 3913 10422
      3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2316Z 354DEG 6KT 3916 10409 

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

$$

HODANISH

3 follow-up statements

171 
WWUS55 KPUB 042320
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
520 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

COC041-042345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-150604T2345Z/
EL PASO CO-
520 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY...
    
AT 519 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SIMLA...OR 22
MILES WEST OF LIMON...AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY.

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 TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RAMAH AROUND 535 PM MDT.

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 3907 10405 3902 10406 3900 10424 3913 10422
      3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 354DEG 6KT 3916 10409 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HODANISH

619 
WWUS55 KPUB 042326
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
526 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

COC041-042345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-150604T2345Z/
EL PASO CO-
526 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY...
    
AT 525 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SIMLA...OR 24
MILES WEST OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTH 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 TORNADO WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 24 BETWEEN MILE MARKER 349 AND 354.

THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RAMAH AROUND 545 PM MDT.

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 3907 10405 3902 10406 3900 10424 3913 10422
      3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2325Z 359DEG 7KT 3916 10412 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HODANISH

500 
WWUS55 KPUB 042334
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
534 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

COC041-042345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-150604T2345Z/
EL PASO CO-
534 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY...
    
AT 533 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 1 MILE NORTH OF 
SIMLA...OR 24 MILES WEST OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 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 TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RAMAH AROUND 545 PM MDT.

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 3907 10405 3902 10406 3900 10424 3913 10422
      3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 005DEG 6KT 3914 10412 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 9:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	36 min
Jun 3, 9:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	47 min
Jun 3, 10:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	38 min
Jun 3, 11:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	35 min
Jun 3, 11:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	33 min
Jun 4, 12:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	30 min
Jun 4, 5:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	40 min
Jun 4, 5:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	El Paso	35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.