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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 6, 1993Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1993, 8:45 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1993, 8:45 PM MDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1993, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
30 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, 2.8 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 1993-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 147 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 1993-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3437 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUYuma15 min
Jul 6, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington34 min
Jul 6, 8:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington, Yuma36 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.