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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 2004Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2004, 8:27 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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, 8:27 PM MDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2004, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
63 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), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1342 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

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

996 
WUUS55 KPUB 100227
SVRPUB
COC009-100330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
827 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 930 PM MDT

* AT 825 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CAMPO...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  CAMPO BY 840 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 3729 10279 3703 10281 3702 10206 3729 10207

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 6:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBProwers3 hr
Jun 9, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca94 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.