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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 17, 2004Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2004, 6:40 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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 17, 2004, 6:40 PM MDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pueblo County, CO

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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 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.

195 
WUUS55 KPUB 180040
SVRPUB
COC101-180145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 634 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  PUEBLO DEPOT BY 705 PM MDT

AT 630 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW ONE INCH HAIL IN 
BELMONT.

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 3833 10470 3818 10457 3839 10411 3852 10439

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	64 min
Jun 17, 6:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	59 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

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.