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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 3, 2004Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2004, 4:21 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 3, 2004, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2004, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 54 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), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:05 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -546 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 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 032221
SVRPUB
COC101-032315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
421 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 420 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY...AND WAS MOVING EAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY BY 440 PM MDT
  RURAL EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY BY 450 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.

LAT...LON 3825 10454 3799 10458 3789 10406 3816 10406

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	59 min
Jun 3, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	65 min
Jun 3, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004 Every 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.