Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2004, 5:54 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2004, 5:54 PM MDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2004, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bent County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:58 PM MDT | TSTM WND DMG | Las Animas, CO | 12 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS BLOWN |
| Jun 20, 6:00 PM MDT | TORNADO | 5 S Las Animas, CO | TORNADO HIT PIG FARM ON HIGHWAY 101 |
| Jun 20, 6:23 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 W Las Animas, CO | LARGE TREE DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
564 WFUS55 KPUB 202354 TORPUB COC011-210100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 553 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 700 PM MDT * AT 549 PM MDT...A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS OVER LAS ANIMAS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR BY 605 PM MDT AT 548 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED A WALL CLOUD WEST OF LAS ANIMAS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ROTATION INTENSIFYING 2 MILES WEST OF LAS ANIMAS. 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 3814 10327 3799 10337 3767 10279 3799 10275 $$
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, 3:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 61 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 |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.