Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 18, 2004Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2004, 10:23 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 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, 10:23 PM MDT (04:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2004, 11:30 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 241 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2456 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
7.7

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The text

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

507 
WUUS55 KPUB 190423
SVRPUB
COC009-190530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1023 PM MDT FRI JUN 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 PM MDT

* AT 1022 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 24 MILES WEST OF CAMPO...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  CAMPO BY 1110 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 3734 10308 3715 10308 3699 10231 3727 10225

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:51 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004Every 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.