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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 16, 2004Bent County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 3:43 PM MDT for Bent County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2004, 3:43 PM MDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 16, 12:50 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

042 
WFUS55 KPUB 162143
TORPUB
COC011-071-162230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
342 PM MDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 335 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL BENT COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RURAL SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY THROUGH 400 PM MDT
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 430 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 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3782 10305 3781 10328 3751 10328 3751 10308

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:59 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	61 min
Jun 16, 1:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	62 min
Jun 16, 1:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	83 min
Jun 16, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	88 min
Jun 16, 2:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	70 min
Jun 16, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
Jun 16, 3:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent	3 hr
Jun 16, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	61 min
Jun 16, 4:21 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	54 min
Jun 16, 4:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	57 min
Jun 16, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	2 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.