Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2016, 3:10 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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
- May 27, 2016, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
832
WFUS55 KPUB 272110
TORPUB
COC061-272145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0008.160527T2110Z-160527T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
310 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 345 PM MDT
* AT 310 PM MDT...SEVERAL BRIEF CONFIRMED TORNADOS OCCURRED NEAR
TOWNER...OR 22 MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.
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.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 330 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 3844 10239 3861 10239 3862 10211 3861 10205
3860 10204 3844 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 090DEG 16KT 3851 10217
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
KT2 follow-up statements
138
WWUS55 KPUB 272123
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
COC061-272145-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160527T2145Z/
KIOWA CO-
323 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 322 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR TOWNER...OR 17 MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING WEST
AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. BETWEEN 255 PM AND 306 PM
...SEVERAL BRIEF WEAK TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN NEAR TOWNER.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 345 PM MDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3844 10239 3861 10239 3862 10211 3861 10205
3860 10204 3844 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 085DEG 19KT 3852 10207
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
KT927
WWUS55 KPUB 272136
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
336 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
COC061-272145-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160527T2145Z/
KIOWA CO-
336 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 334 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR TOWNER...OR 21 MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING WEST
AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
TOWNER THROUGH 345 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 3844 10224 3862 10225 3862 10211 3861 10205
3860 10204 3844 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2134Z 090DEG 16KT 3852 10214
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
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, 2:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 38 min |
| May 27, 2:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.