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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 15, 2004Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2004, 5:03 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2004, 5:03 PM MDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2004, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 57 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), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 5:39 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	Vilas, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 15, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 1544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -399 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

407 
WUUS55 KPUB 152303
SVRPUB
COC009-160000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
503 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 459 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 CAMPO...AND WAS MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  CAMPO BY 510 PM MDT
  9 MILES SOUTH OF VILAS BY 600 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 3703 10274 3700 10252 3731 10223 3744 10253

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	39 min
Jun 15, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min
Jun 15, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Fremont	63 min
Jun 15, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min
Jun 15, 5:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
Jun 15, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	55 min
Jun 15, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	65 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.