Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2004, 8:06 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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 14, 2004, 8:06 PM MDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2004, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 14, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
173 WFUS55 KPUB 150206 TORPUB COC025-150245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 805 PM MDT MON JUN 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 845 PM MDT * AT 803 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. 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 1100 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3836 10362 3819 10366 3818 10351 3834 10350 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Fremont | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 65 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.