Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2004, 6:26 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 94 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, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
666 WUUS55 KPUB 100026 SVRPUB COC009-100200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 627 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 621 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER VILAS... AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... TWO BUTTES BY 735 PM MDT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALSH BY 740 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. 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 3757 10260 3734 10254 3738 10214 3761 10219 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004Every 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.