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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

August 2, 1994Larimer County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1994, 12:41 PM MDT for Larimer County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1994, 12:41 PM MDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1994, 1:15 PM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Larimer County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 1:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULarimer23 min
Aug 2, 1:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUGilpin, Jefferson31 min
Aug 2, 4:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUMorgan, Washington36 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.