Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2004, 6:59 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 7, 2004, 6:59 PM MDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 080059 TORPUB COC099-080130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 658 PM MDT SAT AUG 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 653 PM MDT...A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS OVER HARTMAN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... HOLLY BY 720 PM MDT... OPEN COUNTRY OF EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM. THIS STORM HAS HAD A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND A FEW TORNADOES AS IT MOVED ACROSS BENT COUNTY AND WESTERN PROWERS COUNTY. 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. LAT...LON 3823 10232 3784 10234 3775 10206 3825 10205 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 6:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 90 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.