Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 600
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2005, 2:35 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2005, 2:35 PM MDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2005, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:00 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 1:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more | 84 min |
| Jul 4, 5:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan and 6 more | 91 min |
| Jul 4, 2:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colfax, Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, Union | 117 min |
| Jul 3, 6:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee and 35 more | 115 min |
| Jul 3, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 10:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Craig and 29 more | 95 min |
| Jul 4, 12:40 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine and 67 more | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 1:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Craig and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:28 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 13 more | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 4:12 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 44 more | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 5:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Jefferson, Love, Marshall | 116 min |
| Jul 4, 10:35 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg and 12 more | 85 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.