Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2004, 5:39 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2004, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 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), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 9, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
201 WFUS55 KPUB 092339 TORPUB COC099-100045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 538 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 536 PM MDT...A RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS OVER BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF LAMAR. THE STORM PRODUCING THE RAPID ROTATION WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... GRANADA BY 625 PM MDT BRISTOL BY 630 PM MDT HARTMAN BY 645 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 3819 10252 3801 10249 3801 10212 3827 10217 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 1:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 91 min |
| Jun 9, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 86 min |
| Jun 9, 4:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 3 hr |
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.