Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2004, 4:55 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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 9, 2004, 4:55 PM MDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2004, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 092255 TORPUB COC041-100000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 455 PM MDT MON AUG 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 451 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN THE VICINITY OF CALHAN...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CALHAN BY 515 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3912 10441 3904 10442 3889 10408 3910 10406 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 90 min |
| Aug 9, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 89 min |
| Aug 9, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 97 min |
| Aug 9, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 96 min |
| Aug 9, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.