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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 20, 2004El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2004, 3:44 PM MDT for El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 20, 2004, 3:44 PM MDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties El Paso County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 20, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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.

000 
WFUS55 KPUB 202144
TORPUB
COC041-101-202245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
344 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 340 PM MDT...A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL EL PASO
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY THROUGH 400 PM MDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A HOUSE IS IN A BASEMENT...UNDER STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN
AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR
BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM
FLYING DEBRIS. ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...GO TO A
NEARBY STURDY STRUCTURE AND GET IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF THERE IS NO STURDY
STRUCTURE AVAILABLE...AS A LAST RESORT...GO TO A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3866 10434 3855 10452 3825 10428 3843 10408

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 9:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	56 min
Jun 19, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	54 min
Jun 20, 12:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	61 min
Jun 20, 12:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	65 min
Jun 20, 1:37 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	53 min
Jun 20, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	85 min
Jun 20, 2:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	57 min
Jun 20, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	87 min
Jun 20, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	89 min
Jun 20, 4:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	55 min
Jun 20, 4:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	57 min
Jun 20, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	64 min
Jun 20, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero	83 min
Jun 20, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	29 min
Jun 20, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	23 min
Jun 20, 5:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	66 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.