Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 410
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT for 19 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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.
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 6:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Douglas, Jefferson | 113 min |
| Jun 8, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 7:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Jefferson | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more | 83 min |
| Jun 8, 3:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 119 min |
| Jun 8, 5:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 1 more | 118 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.