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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 12, 1996Jefferson County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 2:05 PM MDT for Jefferson County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1996, 2:05 PM MDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1996-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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 1996-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 12, 11:32 AM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
COZ030-032>050-130600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1130 AM MDT WED JUN 12 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES

ADAMS     ARAPAHOE     BOULDER   CLEAR CREEK   DENVER       DOUGLAS
ELBERT    GILPIN       GRAND     JACKSON       JEFFERSON    LARIMER
LINCOLN   LOGAN        MORGAN    PARK          PHILLIPS     SEDGWICK
SUMMIT    WASHINGTON   WELD

SYNOPSIS: SURFACE MOISTURE CONTINUES TO INCREASE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST
COLORADO TODAY AS WINDS SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST.  IN ADDITION...A WEAK
WEATHER DISTURBACE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AFTER 1PM.  AS A
RESULT  THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON.  THE
STORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ALONG THE FOOTHILLS BY 1PM
AND DRIFT SLOWLY ONTO THE PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON.

SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE IN THE NORTHEAST...WITH LARGE
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH THE MAIN THREAT.  DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT
OF THE STORMS...SOME AREAS COULD RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE
LOCAL FLOODING PROBLEMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVITATION MAY BE REQUIRED AFTER 2PM TODAY.

LESZCYNSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln45 min
Jun 12, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert45 min
Jun 12, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln, Washington45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.