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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 17, 2004Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2004, 6:11 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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 17, 2004, 6:11 PM MDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 17, 6:35 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	25 S Lamar, CO
Jun 17, 6:54 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	28 Sse Lamar, 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 17, 1:45 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 479 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

387 
WUUS55 KPUB 180011
SVRPUB
COC009-099-180115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
610 PM MDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 604 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
  NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM MDT
  RURAL NORTHERN BACA COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM MDT
  RURAL CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 715 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 3759 10299 3746 10284 3778 10226 3795 10243
      3764 10273

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	59 min
Jun 17, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	65 min
Jun 17, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	54 min
Jun 17, 7:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	52 min
Jun 18, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	56 min
Jun 18, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.