Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 516

June 24, 199716 counties in Colorado

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 1997, 4:15 PM MDT for 16 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1997, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1997, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO

Warnings issued inside it

12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln50 min
Jun 24, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers48 min
Jun 24, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne47 min
Jun 24, 5:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington49 min
Jun 24, 5:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln39 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln36 min
Jun 24, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
Jun 24, 6:33 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne62 min
Jun 24, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa65 min
Jun 24, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Morgan, Washington29 min
Jun 24, 7:01 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
Jun 24, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa64 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1997-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 514 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1997-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.