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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 19, 2004Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2004, 9:51 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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 19, 2004, 9:51 PM MDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2004, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2004-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 625 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2004-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

283 
WUUS55 KPUB 200351
SVRPUB
COC061-200445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
951 PM MDT SAT JUN 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT

* AT 947 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES WEST OF HASWELL...AND WAS MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  HASWELL BY 1040 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.

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 3856 10347 3843 10350 3838 10351 3825 10293
      3839 10282

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 9:34 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley56 min
Jun 20, 12:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa61 min
Jun 20, 12:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso65 min
Jun 20, 1:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso53 min
Jun 20, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca85 min
Jun 20, 2:33 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso57 min
Jun 20, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo87 min
Jun 20, 3:44 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso, Pueblo61 min
Jun 20, 3:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca89 min
Jun 20, 4:20 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley, Pueblo55 min
Jun 20, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano57 min
Jun 20, 4:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo64 min
Jun 20, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Otero83 min
Jun 20, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley29 min
Jun 20, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley23 min
Jun 20, 5:54 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent66 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.