Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1993, 5:22 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1993, 5:22 PM MDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1993, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 12:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
COZ002-004-011-012-013-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1225 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1993 UPDATED TO INCREASE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ALONG FRONT RANGE THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS DENVER JACKSON LOGAN SEDGWICK YUMA ARAPAHOE DOUGLAS JEFFERSON MORGAN SUMMIT BOULDER GILPIN LARIMER PARK WASHINGTON CLEAR CREEK GRAND LAKE PHILLIPS WELD THE AIRMASS HAS DRIED OUT NEAR THE FOOTHILLS...BUT THE DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN HIGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. A DRY LINE MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THESE TWO AIR MASSES... AND AT NOON IT EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHEAST WELD...WESTERN MORGAN TO EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. TO THE WEST OF THE DRY LINE THERE WILL BE A FEW GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. THE DRY LINE WILL CONTINUE SLIDING SLOWLY EAST THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE...WITH SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF FORT MORGAN AFTER 3PM. SPOTTERS MAY BE ACTIVATED FOR THE NORTHEAST PLAINS AND NORTHEAST BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. RTG
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:28 PM MDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
COZ002-004-011-012-013-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1225 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1993 UPDATED TO INCREASE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ALONG FRONT RANGE THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS DENVER JACKSON LOGAN SEDGWICK YUMA ARAPAHOE DOUGLAS JEFFERSON MORGAN SUMMIT BOULDER GILPIN LARIMER PARK WASHINGTON CLEAR CREEK GRAND LAKE PHILLIPS WELD THE AIRMASS HAS DRIED OUT NEAR THE FOOTHILLS...BUT THE DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN HIGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. A DRY LINE MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THESE TWO AIR MASSES... AND AT NOON IT EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHEAST WELD...WESTERN MORGAN TO EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. TO THE WEST OF THE DRY LINE THERE WILL BE A FEW GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. THE DRY LINE WILL CONTINUE SLIDING SLOWLY EAST THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE...WITH SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF FORT MORGAN AFTER 3PM. SPOTTERS MAY BE ACTIVATED FOR THE NORTHEAST PLAINS AND NORTHEAST BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. RTG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington, Yuma | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 5:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 27 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.