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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 15, 2016Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2016, 3:22 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 8 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: Apr 15, 2016, 3:22 PM MDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2016, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 8 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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
Apr 15, 1:57 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

888 
WFUS55 KPUB 152122
TORPUB
COC061-152130-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0004.160415T2122Z-160415T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
322 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT
    
* AT 322 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF EADS...OR 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL 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
  NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA 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 3855 10264 3857 10281 3862 10282 3861 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 185DEG 20KT 3861 10272 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

KT

1 follow-up statement

784 
WWUS55 KPUB 152128
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
328 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

COC061-152137-
/O.EXP.KPUB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160415T2130Z/
KIOWA CO-
328 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
330 PM MDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLORADO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
WESTERN PORTIONS OF KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM. 

LAT...LON 3855 10264 3857 10281 3862 10282 3861 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2125Z 185DEG 20KT 3861 10272 

$$

KT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 10:28 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 4 more	41 hr
Apr 15, 12:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	38 min
Apr 15, 1:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	40 min
Apr 15, 1:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	31 min
Apr 15, 1:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	24 min
Apr 15, 2:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	38 min
Apr 15, 2:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	36 min
Apr 15, 2:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
Apr 15, 3:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 15, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	20 min
Apr 15, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	50 min
Apr 15, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	48 min
Apr 15, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	15 min
Apr 15, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	49 min
Apr 15, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	30 min
Apr 15, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	67 min
Apr 15, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	45 min
Apr 15, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.