Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 60 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.