Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2004, 4:19 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 86 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, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.
080 WUUS55 KPUB 092219 SVRPUB COC061-099-092345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 419 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 416 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES EAST OF QUEENS RESERVOIR...AND WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHIVINGTON BY 505 PM MDT QUEENS RESERVOIR BY 510 PM MDT NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR BY 525 PM MDT SWEETWATER RESERVOIR BY 545 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 3814 10237 3830 10227 3862 10248 3840 10288 $$
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, 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, 4:27 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.