Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2004, 7:59 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 9, 2004, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 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), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:10 PM MDT | HAIL 2.75 | Rush, CO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 2151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KPUB 100159 TORPUB COC041-100300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 759 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 900 PM MDT * AT 757 PM MDT...A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS OVER TRUCKTON...OR ABOUT 37 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY THROUGH 810 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. LAT...LON 3886 10405 3881 10427 3854 10422 3852 10407 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero, Pueblo | 84 min |
| Aug 9, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 6:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 113 min |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 87 min |
| Aug 9, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 89 min |
| Aug 9, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 8:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley, Pueblo | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 8:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 92 min |
| Aug 9, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 10:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 10:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 12:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 91 min |
| Aug 10, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 83 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.