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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 9, 1993Morgan County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1993, 3:23 PM MDT for Morgan County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1993, 3:23 PM MDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1993, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Morgan County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 1993-07-09Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
1594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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, Jul 9, 11:28 AM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
COZ002-004-011-012-013-100600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1130 AM MDT FRI JUL 9 1993

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

DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST LIKELY OVER THE NORTHEAST
BORDER AREAS WHERE SURFACE MOISTURE IS MORE ABUNDANT.  WINDS HAVE
BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR SUPPORTING STRONG AND EVEN SEVERE ACTIVITY.
IF YOU ARE IN THAT AREA EAST OF A LINE FROM STERLING TO AKRON TO ANTON
...BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD SEE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOP.  THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...BUT GUSTY WINDS
MAY OCCUR.

DULONG
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 5:04 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUKit Carson, Washington, Yuma26 min
Jul 9, 5:25 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUKit Carson, Washington, Yuma35 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.