Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 30, 1988Phillips County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1988, 8:07 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1988, 8:07 PM MDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1988, 8:35 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Phillips County, CO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1988-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1988-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 9:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Washington38 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.