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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 8, 2004Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2004, 7:59 PM MDT for Las Animas 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 8, 2004, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 1260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

467 
WUUS55 KPUB 090159
SVRPUB
COC071-090300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
759 PM MDT TUE JUN 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 900 PM MDT

* AT 755 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED OVER KIM...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...KIM THROUGH 810 MDT AND 
  RURAL EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 900 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 3735 10363 3712 10343 3723 10310 3765 10307

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 1:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	59 min
Jun 9, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	91 min
Jun 9, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	54 min
Jun 9, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	52 min
Jun 9, 4:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	86 min
Jun 9, 4:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Teller	3 hr
Jun 9, 5:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.