4 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 24, 1:25 PM MST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 225 PM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 .SHORT TERM... (TONIGHT AND SATURDAY) MAIN CONCERN IS THE PCPN COVERAGE. AN ELONGATED TROF WL EXTEND FROM THE GREAT LAKES STATES...ACRS CO THRU SAT. TONIGHT A SHRTWV WL DROP INTO CO FROM THE NW...THEN LATE TONIGHT AND THRU THE DAY SAT A STRONGER AREA OF PV WL STRETCH ACRS THE FORECAST AREA. THIS AFTERNOON HYR DEW POINT AIR AND HYR CAPES LIE OVR THE FAR SE PLAINS...AND THIS IS WHERE THE STRONGER STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE EARLY THIS EVENING. WL COVER THE FORECAST AREA WITH ISOLD TO SCT SHOWERS/TSTMS. MODELS SHOW THE POTENTIAL FOR PCPN TO CONTINUE OVR MAINLY THE FAR SE PLAINS THRU MUCH OF THE NIGHT...IN THE AREA OF SRLY FLOW AND WAA SO WL GO ALONG WITH THIS AND KEEP IN SOME ISOLD POPS WHICH WL ALSO BLEND BETTER WITH SURROUNDING AREAS. ON SAT WITH THE UPR LIFT PRESENT AND MSTR SHOULD AGAIN SEE SHOWERS AND TSTMS ACRS THE AREA. BEST MSTR AND LIFT WL BE ALONG THE SRN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA AND HAVE BUMPED UP SOME OF THE POPS. THERE WL ALSO BE SOME LOW TO MID LVL UPSLOPE FLOW ALONG THE SE MTS AND ADJACENT PLAINS WHICH WAS ALSO A REASON TO INCREASE POPS IN THIS AREA. MAX TEMPS ARE WARMER THAN GUIDANCE AND IT LOOKS LIKE SOME COOLER AIR WL SINK SOUTH INTO THE AREA AND WL LOWER TEMPS A BIT. .LONG TERM... (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY) STORM TRACK REMAINS ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER THROUGH THE PERIOD... WITH A WEAK UPPER TROF LINGERING OVER NM THROUGH THESDAY. NOT MUCH SYNOPTIC LIFT THROUGH FRIDAY...HOWEVER THE MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER TROF COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING...OROGRAPHICS...AND MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO BRING ISOLATED SHOWERS AND STORMS TO THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS EACH DAY. WINDS ALOFT REMAIN WEAK...WHILE SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS GENERALLY PREVAIL ACROSS THE PLAINS. FLOW LOOKS TO INCREASE A BIT AND BECOME SOUTHWEST THURS AND FRI AHEAD OF INCOMING SOUTHWEST CUTOFF LOW. ALL WILL DEPEND ON SPEED AND TRACK OF LOW...WHICH IS USUALLY QUITE VARIABLE THIS FAR OUT. TEMPS HOVER NEAR CLIMO. MADE ONLY A FEW TWEAKS TO CURRENT GRIDS. KC && .PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 629 AM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 COZ058>089-093>099-251300- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT-CROWLEY COUNTY- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET-WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- 629 AM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO TODAY BRINGING INCREASING MOISTURE AND A THREAT FOR ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. SOME BRIEF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH STORMS...ESPECIALLY OVER AND NEAR THE HIGHER TERRAIN. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH ACROSS MOST AREAS BY MIDNIGHT...WITH A FEW LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE UNTIL 300 AM ALONG THE SOUTHERN COLORADO BORDER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO FOR SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. KT/METZE
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 UTC.
4 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail occurred for 45 minutes and completely covered the ground several inches deep.
Hail occurred for nearly an hour, ranging from one inch to 1.75 inches in diameter.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding of Horse Creek and West Wildhorse Creek.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, September 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5422773, 5422774, 5422777, 5422775, 5422776.