Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2004, 7:23 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 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, 7:23 PM MDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 180121 SVRPUB COC009-180215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 715 PM MDT THU JUN 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 815 PM MDT * AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OVER 70 MPH. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM EXTREME NORTHEAST BACA COUNTY TO THE CAMPO AREA OF SOUTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... WALSH...CAMPO...AND RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY. THERE HAS BEEN A LONG HISTORY OF VERY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. 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 3763 10213 3751 10211 3750 10091 3777 10092 $$
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, 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 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.