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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 2004Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2004, 3:24 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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
Jul 29, 2004, 3:24 PM MDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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 (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 252 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-327 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 292124
SVRPUB
COC101-292230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT THU JUL 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT.

* AT 318 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEULAH...OR 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...
  AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  BEULAH THROUGH 330 PM MDT
  NEAR RYE BY 340 PM MDT.
  NEAR COLORADO CITY BY 350 PM MDT.

THE TOWN OF WOODLAND ACRES IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM.

IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE
THE WEATHER HITS. GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST
PROTECTION.

LAT...LON 3817 10499 3813 10504 3794 10504 3787 10499
      3790 10459

$$

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso53 min
Jul 29, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.