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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 15, 2016Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2016, 7:21 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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: Apr 15, 2016, 7:21 PM MDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2016, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 216 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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
Apr 15, 7:23 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	6 S Campo, 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
Apr 15, 1:57 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 1077 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

As transmitted.

365 
WFUS55 KPUB 160121
TORPUB
COC009-160145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0005.160416T0121Z-160416T0145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT
    
* AT 721 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR CAMPO...OR 21 MILES NORTH OF BOISE CITY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 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
  SOUTHEASTERN BACA 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 3699 10238 3700 10266 3705 10271 3749 10239
      3735 10204 3715 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 232DEG 44KT 3704 10257 

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

$$

HODANISH

1 follow-up statement

075 
WWUS55 KPUB 160131
SVSPUB

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

COC009-160145-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160416T0145Z/
BACA CO-
731 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY...
    
AT 730 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR CAMPO...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 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. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WALSH...VILAS...CAMPO AND STONINGTON. 

THIS STORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE 6 MILES SOUTH OF CAMPO AT 723 PM.

LAT...LON 3700 10259 3709 10268 3749 10239 3735 10204
      3715 10204 3699 10238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0130Z 231DEG 39KT 3709 10249 

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

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	49 min
Apr 15, 6:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	44 min
Apr 15, 6:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Prowers	115 min
Apr 15, 6:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	23 min
Apr 15, 6:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	54 min
Apr 15, 7:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	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.