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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 29, 1998Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 10:15 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1998, 10:15 PM MDT (04:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 10:55 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Elbert County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1998-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 300416 RRA
SVRDEN
COC039-300455-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1015 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
     EASTERN ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 1055 PM MDT

* AT 1014 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIMLA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES
  WEST OF LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. LARGE HAIL IS    
  POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...AGATE...MATHESON AND SIMLA

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60
MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

ENTREKIN

LAT...LON 3915 10434 3912 10400 3924 10377 3952 10373
          3954 10406

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 11:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington27 min
Jun 29, 11:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln45 min
Jun 30, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUJefferson32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.