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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 21, 1992Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1992, 7:28 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1992, 7:28 PM MDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1992, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Yuma County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 1992-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1229 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 1992-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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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 21, 5:04 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUYuma27 min
Jun 21, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUYuma30 min
Jun 22, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULarimer, Weld31 min
Jun 22, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULarimer, Weld18 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.