Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2016, 2:07 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports 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 27, 2016, 2:07 PM MDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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 27, 2:43 PM MDT | TORNADO | 5 N Towner, CO | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OBSERVED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. |
| May 27, 2:55 PM MDT | TORNADO | 1 Ese Towner, CO | TORNADO DURATION 5 MINUTES. |
| May 27, 2:55 PM MDT | TORNADO | 1 Ese Towner, CO |
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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
543
WUUS55 KPUB 272007
SVRPUB
COC061-272045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0030.160527T2007Z-160527T2045Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
207 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 245 PM MDT
* AT 207 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TOWNER...OR
21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE...BRANDON...CHIVINGTON AND TOWNER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3844 10256 3861 10261 3861 10205 3845 10204
3841 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 108DEG 17KT 3853 10218
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
KT2 follow-up statements
207
WWUS55 KPUB 272020
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
220 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
COC061-272045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-160527T2045Z/
KIOWA CO-
220 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 219 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHERIDAN
LAKE... OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3848 10257 3861 10261 3861 10205 3845 10204
3844 10219
TIME...MOT...LOC 2019Z 108DEG 17KT 3855 10225
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
KT331
WWUS55 KPUB 272030
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
230 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
COC061-272045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-160527T2045Z/
KIOWA CO-
230 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 230 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TOWNER...OR 20
MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3846 10235 3861 10235 3861 10205 3845 10204
3844 10219
TIME...MOT...LOC 2030Z 106DEG 13KT 3852 10213
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
KTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 27, 2:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 27, 3:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 35 min |
| May 27, 3:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 32 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.