Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
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.
- 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
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, 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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma | 35 min |
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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.