Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 5, 1993Phillips County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 6:27 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1993, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1993, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Phillips County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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 1993-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.