Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2004, 1:00 PM MDT for Custer County, Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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 21, 2004, 1:00 PM MDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2004, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS55 KPUB 211900
SVRPUB
COC027-043-212000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
100 PM MDT MON JUN 21 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO
CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 200 PM MDT
* AT 1257 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY...AND
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
RURAL NORTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN CUSTER COUNTY THROUGH 200 PM MDT
RURAL SOUTHERN FREMONT COUNTY THROUGH 200 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 3841 10537 3821 10548 3808 10518 3825 10508
3834 10523
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 85 min |
| Jun 20, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 7:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 8:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Prowers | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 66 min |
| Jun 21, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 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.