Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2015
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2015, 4:59 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 15 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 7, 2015, 4:59 PM MDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2015, 5:14 PM MDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 2.0 in
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:59 PM MDT | TORNADO | 18 Se Walsh, CO | RECEIVED FROM NWS DDC |
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 7, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
225
WFUS55 KPUB 072300
TORPUB
COC009-072330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0005.150507T2259Z-150507T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
459 PM MDT THU MAY 7 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 530 PM MDT
* AT 459 PM MDT...A TORNADO PRODUCING STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ELKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER.
SOURCE...RADAR 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 BACA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED
FOR THE SAME AREA.
&&
LAT...LON 3699 10205 3699 10207 3700 10208 3715 10217
3721 10205 3719 10204 3700 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 243DEG 43KT 3711 10204
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...2.00IN
$$
LW1 follow-up statement
488
WWUS55 KPUB 072315
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
514 PM MDT THU MAY 7 2015
COC009-072324-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-150507T2330Z/
BACA CO-
514 PM MDT THU MAY 7 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS
AND EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3699 10205 3699 10207 3700 10208 3715 10217
3721 10205 3719 10204 3700 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 243DEG 43KT 3720 10183
$$
LWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 90 min |
| May 7, 12:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 31 min |
| May 7, 12:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 37 min |
| May 7, 12:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 31 min |
| May 7, 1:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 36 min |
| May 7, 1:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 23 min |
| May 7, 1:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 27 min |
| May 7, 1:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 37 min |
| May 7, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 44 min |
| May 7, 2:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 114 min |
| May 7, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 31 min |
| May 7, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 23 min |
| May 7, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 32 min |
| May 7, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 44 min |
| May 7, 2:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| May 7, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 34 min |
| May 7, 3:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Elbert | 25 min |
| May 7, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 26 min |
| May 7, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 37 min |
| May 7, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 37 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.