Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2004, 10:07 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 83 min. 2 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
- Aug 10, 2004, 10:07 PM MDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2004, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:25 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 71 | Springfield, CO | |
| Aug 10, 10:42 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 80 | Walsh, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 110407 SVRPUB COC009-110530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1006 PM MDT TUE AUG 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD * UNTIL 1130 PM MDT. * AT 1005 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN BACA COUNTY THROUGH 1030 PM MDT. NEAR TWO BUTTES AROUND 1020 PM MDT. NEAR SPRINGFIELD BY 1035 PM MDT. NEAR VILAS BY 1045 PM MDT. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3764 10207 3764 10296 3706 10264 3718 10206 $$ KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 95 min |
| Aug 10, 7:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 7:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 93 min |
| Aug 10, 8:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 78 min |
| Aug 10, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 93 min |
| Aug 10, 8:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 9:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 87 min |
| Aug 10, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 10:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 92 min |
Nearby
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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.