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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 10, 1992Adams County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1992, 6:06 PM MDT for Adams County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1992, 6:06 PM MDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1992, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Adams County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 1992-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 472 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 1992-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
472 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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, Jul 10, 5:18 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
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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.