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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 24, 2004Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2004, 3:33 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 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 24, 2004, 3:33 PM MDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2004-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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.

491 
WUUS55 KPUB 242133
SVRPUB
COC101-242230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
333 PM MDT THU JUN 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 326 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RYE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY
  STATIONARY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  BUELAY THROUGH 345 PM
  RYE AND 7 MILES WEST OF COLORADO CITY BY 430 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 3809 10504 3792 10504 3787 10501 3789 10477
      3796 10472

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca83 min
Jun 24, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano56 min
Jun 24, 3:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster49 min
Jun 24, 5:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso65 min
Jun 24, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont68 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.