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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 10, 2004Baca County, Colorado

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 10:25 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 71Springfield, CO
Aug 10, 10:42 PM MDTTSTM WND GST 80Walsh, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 10, 8:35 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 913 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2004-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso95 min
Aug 10, 7:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
Aug 10, 7:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Prowers62 min
Aug 10, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo84 min
Aug 10, 7:57 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo93 min
Aug 10, 8:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo3 hr
Aug 10, 8:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa78 min
Aug 10, 8:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, Otero93 min
Aug 10, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont58 min
Aug 10, 9:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers87 min
Aug 10, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa60 min
Aug 10, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster, Pueblo66 min
Aug 10, 10:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Prowers34 min
Aug 11, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBTeller48 min
Aug 11, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas92 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.