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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

September 5, 1995Sedgwick County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1995, 5:32 PM MDT for Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 5, 1995, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Sedgwick County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1508 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 313 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.