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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 18, 2004Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2004, 5:52 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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 18, 2004, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 182352
SVRPUB
COC025-089-190045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
552 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 548 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANZANOLA...AND WAS MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  MANZANOLA BY 605 PM MDT
  CROWLEY BY 610 PM MDT
  ORDWAY BY 620 PM MDT
  SUGAR CITY BY 625 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 3799 10406 3787 10393 3828 10351 3845 10368

$$

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 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

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.