1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 30, 3:15 AM MST, 8 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 415 AM MDT THU SEP 30 2004 .SHORT TERM... (TODAY AND TONIGHT) CURRENTLY UPR LOW IS SPINNING OVR WRN UT/ERN NV WITH SOME DRIER AIR WORKING INTO SRN CO AND THUS WL DECREASE OR REMOVE MORNING POPS IN SOME AREAS. DURING THE DAY THE UPR SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BECOME AN OPEN WAVE AND WL SEND A PIECE OF ENERGY ACRS THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. BEST UPR LVL ENERGY WL BE CENTERED OVR THE AREA AROUND MIDDAY AND THEN MOVES EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON. CAPE VALUES WL BE FAIRLY LOW TODAY AND SHEAR VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 20-25 KTS...BUT LAPSE RATES WL BE AROUND 8 C/KM AS COOLER AIR ALOFT MOVES OVR THE AREA. THE BEST UPR LIFT OVR THE AREA TODAY WL BE THIS MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON AND THEN IT SHIFTS N AND E OF THE AREA...SO WL MAINLY HAVE TO RELY ON INSTABILITY AND OROGRAPHICS RATHER THAN UPR FORCING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING TO PRODUCE PCPN. BEST PCPN CHANCES WL BE OVR THE MTS AND THIS IS WHERE I WL KEEP THE HYR POPS. WITH THE UPR TROF BRINGING SOME COOLER AIR TO THE AREA TODAY AND WL LOWER TEMPS A LITTLE IN SOME AREAS TO BETTER MATCH GUIDANCE AND SURROUNDING WFOS. TONIGHT AS THE UPR TROF SHIFTS FARTHER E WL SEE THE CHANCE FOR PCPN DECREASE. .LONG TERM... (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY) MAIN CONCERNS TEMPERATURES AND POPS WITH FRONTAL SURGE FRIDAY. FRI AND FRI NIGHT...UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO LIFT OUT ACROSS NORTHEASTERN COLORADO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AND INTO THE CENTRAL/NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. PASSING TROUGH ALLOWS FOR BACKDOOR COLD FRONT TO MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO...AS A COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM BUILDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS. FRONT LOOKS TO BE AROUND PALMER DVD BETWEEN 12Z-15Z AND ACROSS THE REST OF THE PLAINS BY 18Z. WITH NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF UPPER SUPPORT...BEST POPS WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH LIFT ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THEN MOSTLY CONCENTRATED ACROSS THE EASTERN SLOPES WITH DEVELOPING UPSLOPE AND HAVE TAILORED FORECAST AS SUCH. TEMPS COOL RAPIDLY BEHIND FRONT...WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY (MVFR/IFR CIGS) DEVELOPING ACROSS THE PLAINS THROUGH THE MORNING. WET BULB ZEROS PROGGED TO DROP TO AROUND 8K FEET...AND COULD SEE SOME MIXED -SHRA/-SHSN DOWN TO AROUND 7K FEET. UPSLOPE COMPONENT NOT VERY STRONG...AS MID AND UPPER FLOW BECOME WEST TO SOUTHWEST EARLY FRIDAY NIGHT...AND HAVE CUT BACK POPS TO LOW CHANCES ACROSS THE EASTERN MTS WITH SLIGHT CHANCES ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA. WITH EARLY MOVEMENT OF FRONT ACROSS THE AREA...HAVE WENT WITH COOLER SIDE OF GUIDANCE TEMPS ON FRIDAY. WILL CONTINUE TO SEE MOSTLY CLOUDY (IFR CIGS) ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT AS EAST TO SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW DEVELOPS...KEEPING OVERNIGHT LOWS UP ACROSS THE PLAINS. SAT-SUN...SLOW WARMING TREND ON TAP WITH SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL RETURN FLOW DEVELOPING AS SFC HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO BUILD INTO THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS. WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF ISOLATED DIURNAL TSRA/SHRA ACROSS THE AREA SAT WITH ENOUGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND MINOR DISTURBANCES PROGGED IN THE WEAK WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. MON-WED...STILL HAVING SOME TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WITH ONLY RECEIVING LONG TERM GFS MODEL DATA ATTM...AND HAVE ONLY MADE SOME MINOR CHANGES TO BETTER BLEND WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES THROUGH THIS PERIOD. AT ANY RATE...GFS INDICATING WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE AREA MON WITH A WEAK FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS...WITH COOL LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW AND MINOR DISTURBANCES IN THE FLOW KEEPING THE POSSIBILITY FOR SOME PRECIP IN THE FORECAST TUE AND WED. -MW && .PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 650 AM MDT THU SEP 30 2004 COZ058>089-093>099-011300- 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- 650 AM MDT THU SEP 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS...WITH THE BEST CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO PLAINS ON FRIDAY...BRINGING COLDER TEMPERATURES...SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS...ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS MAY BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING IN THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS...GENERALLY ABOVE 7500 FEET. THERE WILL A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO ON SATURDAY...AND ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS SUNDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...WITH THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY STORMS BEING CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:10 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A short lived tornado one mile northeast of the intersection of Volmer Road and Black Forest Road caused no known damage. It passed through open country in a construction area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 2004Warnings 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: 5422781, 5422780.