Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Watches in 2004
Tornado Watch 391
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2004, 2:05 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado; Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska; Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2004, 2:05 PM MDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 5:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 34 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 3, 1:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley and 21 more | 117 min |
| Jun 3, 5:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 11 more | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 3:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Hooker, Sheridan, Sioux | 91 min |
| Jun 3, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2004Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2004Tornado Watches in Wyoming, 2004Every tornado watch in 2004
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.