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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 8, 1993Boulder County, Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1993, 1:24 PM MDT for Boulder County, Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1993, 1:24 PM MDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1993, 2:00 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Boulder County, CO, Weld County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 236 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-373 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 7, 8:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan27 min
Jul 7, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan33 min
Jul 7, 9:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUPhillips35 min
Jul 8, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld35 min
Jul 8, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Morgan30 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.