Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 2004Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2004, 3:09 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2004, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 21, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 300 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2004-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2004-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

792 
WUUS55 KPUB 212109
SVRPUB
COC071-212215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
308 PM MDT MON JUN 21 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT

* AT 306 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 22 MILES WEST OF TRINCHERA...AND WAS MOVING EAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRINCHERA BY 415 PM MDT

AT 306 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW PENNY SIZE HAIL 3 
MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD.

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 3710 10452 3692 10455 3681 10398 3707 10393

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers85 min
Jun 20, 6:34 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers56 min
Jun 20, 7:29 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers31 min
Jun 20, 8:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBProwers2 hr
Jun 21, 1:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster, Fremont60 min
Jun 21, 3:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas64 min
Jun 21, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas63 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.