Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 4, 2004Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2004, 6:29 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 4, 2004, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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.

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 4, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 1684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 050029
SVRPUB
COC099-050130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
630 PM MDT FRI JUN 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT

* AT 621 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10
  MILES NORTHEAST OF HOLLY TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY...AND WAS
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 640 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.

THIS WARNING REPLACES AND EXTENDS THE WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR
PROWERS COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM MDT.

LAT...LON 3826 10206 3776 10258 3768 10242 3765 10216
          3765 10207 3812 10206

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	66 min
Jun 4, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	63 min
Jun 4, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	57 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.