Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2004, 2:14 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 91 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 9, 2004, 2:14 PM MDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 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), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 9, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
529
WUUS55 KPUB 092014
SVRPUB
COC071-092145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
212 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 345 PM MDT
* AT 208 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
GOLF BALL SIZE. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER AGUILAR...AND WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
7 MILES NORTHWEST OF TYRONE BY 255 PM MDT
THATCHER BY 320 PM MDT
AT 203 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW HAIL AROUND THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS IN AGUILAR.
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 IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A
DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WHICH COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY AND PRODUCE A
TORNADO WITH LITTLE WARNING GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT CAN
OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION.
LAT...LON 3744 10470 3729 10458 3739 10398 3773 10407
3776 10417
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 1:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 59 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.