Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1992, 5:45 PM MDT for Adams County, Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1992, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1992, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, CO, Washington County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 122345
SVRDEN
COC001-121-130015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
545 PM MDT FRI JUN 12 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
EASTERN ADAMS AND WEST CENTRAL WASHINGTON
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
LAST CHANCE...LINDON...SHAMROCK AND WOODLIN SCHOOL
AT 540 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF WOODLIN SCHOOL ...OR
ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF LIMON.
THE PUBLIC REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE HAIL
AT 530 PM AT HIGHWAY 71 BETWEEN WOODROW AND LAST CHANCE.
THE STORM WAS NOT MOVING.
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY
SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
LAT...LON 3971 10328 3977 10379 4001 10396 3997 10353What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:19 PM MDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
COZ002-011-122130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 215 PM MDT FRI JUN 12 1992 ...RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN LARIMER COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT 210 PM INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF RUSTIC... OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT COLLINS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY...SO MAY PRODUCE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THERE MAY ALSO BE SOME HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS OF NORTHERN LARIMER COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE DEVELOPING STORM...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF NECESSARY. RTG
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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.