Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 16, 2004Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2004, 4:59 AM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 16, 2004, 4:59 AM MDT (10:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2004, 6:00 AM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:59 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

134 
WUUS55 KPUB 161059
SVRPUB
COC099-161200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
459 AM MDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 AM MDT

* AT 454 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY...AND WAS MOVING EAST
  AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  HOLLY BY 535 AM 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 3802 10242 3785 10237 3788 10182 3815 10189

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 1:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	62 min
Jun 16, 1:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	83 min
Jun 16, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	88 min
Jun 16, 2:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	70 min
Jun 16, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
Jun 16, 3:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent	3 hr
Jun 16, 3:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas	47 min
Jun 16, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	61 min
Jun 16, 4:21 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	54 min
Jun 16, 4:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	57 min
Jun 16, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004 Every 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.