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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 20, 1992Boulder County, Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1992, 10:24 PM MDT for Boulder County, Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 21 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1992, 10:24 PM MDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1992, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Boulder County, CO, Weld County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 1992-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1461 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 1992-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1461 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

What 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 20, 4:56 PM MDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
COZ011-012-202300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
455 PM MDT  SAT  JUN 20 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WELD COUNTY...

AT 450PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN WELD COUNTY.  ONE
THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GILCREST...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREELEY.
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR KERSEY...10 MILES EAST OF GREELEY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL
TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS OR EVEN PRODUCE A TORNADO.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS STATIONS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO IN CASE
WARNINGS ARE NEEDED.

BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER IS IN YOUR AREA.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS STATIONS AND TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDAT
ES
ON THE LATEST WEATHER.

A TORNADO WATCH IS CONTINUING FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN COLORADO
UNTIL 8PM.

HOLZINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:01 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
COZ011-012-202330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
455 PM MDT  SAT  JUN 20 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WELD COUNTY...

AT 450PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN WELD COUNTY.  ONE
THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GILCREST...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREELEY.
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR KERSEY...10 MILES EAST OF GREELEY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL
TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS OR EVEN PRODUCE A TORNADO.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS STATIONS AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO IN CASE
WARNINGS ARE NEEDED.

BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER IS IN YOUR AREA.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS STATIONSD AND TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES
ON THE LATEST WEATHER.

A TORNADO WATCH IS CONTINUING FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN COLORADO
UNTIL 8PM.

HOLZINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 9:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 6:03 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Weld27 min
Jun 20, 6:30 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams15 min
Jun 20, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington63 min
Jun 20, 7:47 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington43 min
Jun 20, 7:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington33 min
Jun 21, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUBoulder, Larimer43 min
Jun 21, 4:51 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe39 min
Jun 21, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUPhillips, Yuma32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.