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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 23, 1993Washington County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1993, 8:53 PM MDT for Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1993, 8:53 PM MDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1993, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 11 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 1993-06-24Temperature 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 1993-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.4

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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 23, 6:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
COZ012-240100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
640 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993

...HEAVY RAIN IN MORGAN COUNTY...

AT 635 PM MDT HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED IN MORGAN COUNTY IN THE WESTERN
END OF THE TOWN OF BRUSH COLORADO.  1/2 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN 15
MINUTES AND HAS CAUSED LOCAL STREET FLOODING.

RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM
NEBRASKA ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF COLORADO THROUGH SEDGWICK COUNTY
TO EXTREME EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY.  THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE IN SEDGWICK...LOGAN AND MORGAN COUNTIES.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF
THREATENING WEATHER IS IN YOUR AREA.  REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS EVENING.  MOTORISTS DRIVE
WITH CAUTION IF YOU ENCOUNTER RAIN.  LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS IS
POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS.  CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...AND/OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER
UPDATES.

GCF
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:41 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
COZ012-240100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
640 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993

...HEAVY RAIN IN MORGAN COUNTY...

AT 635 PM MDT HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED IN MORGAN COUNTY IN THE WESTERN
END OF THE TOWN OF BRUSH COLORADO.  1/2 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN 15
MINUTES AND HAS CAUSED LOCAL STREET FLOODING.

RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM
NEBRASKA ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF COLORADO THROUGH SEDGWICK COUNTY
TO EXTREME EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY.  THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE IN SEDGWICK...LOGAN AND MORGAN COUNTIES.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF
THREATENING WEATHER IS IN YOUR AREA.  REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST COLORADO LATE THIS EVENING.  MOTORISTS DRIVE
WITH CAUTION IF YOU ENCOUNTER RAIN.  LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS IS
POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS.  CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...AND/OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER
UPDATES.

GCF
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 8:15 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUSedgwick30 min
Jun 23, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Morgan, Washington28 min
Jun 23, 6:50 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington25 min
Jun 23, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Phillips, Yuma37 min
Jun 23, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington37 min
Jun 23, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington40 min
Jun 23, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUYuma29 min
Jun 23, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUYuma27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.