Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 5:16 PM MDT for Morgan County, Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 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 22, 1998, 5:16 PM MDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1998, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Morgan County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
768
WUUS1 KDEN 222318 RRA
SVRDEN
COC087-123-230000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
516 PM MDT MON JUN 22 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
SOUTH CENTRAL WELD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 514 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WIGGINS...OR ABOUT 26
MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER
HOUR.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...WIGGINS
VERY LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN
A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
LAT...LON 4011 10427 4006 10424 4013 10394 4026 10404
GIMMESTADWhat 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 22, 4:45 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
COZ030-032>050-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 445 PM MDT MON JUN 22 1998 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: THE FIRST THUNDERSTORM OF THE DAY HAS CREATED A WIND SHIFT LINE ACROSS THE DENVER METRO AREA. THIS HAS LESSENED THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER FARTHER NORTH IN THE GREELEY AND FORT COLLINS AREA. THE MAIN AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON WILL BE IN THE AREA BETWEEN DENVER AND LAST CHANCE. FARTHER EAST...THE AIRMASS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING FROM LAST CHANCE AND NEW RAYMER EAST. HAIL IN THE ONE TO TWO INCH DIAMETER RANGE WILL BE THE MAIN FEATURE OF STORMS THIS EVENING...BUT DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED IN THE DENVER AREA. YOU CAN REPORT SEVEVRE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHO WILL RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GIMMESTAD
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:45 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
COZ030-032>050-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 445 PM MDT MON JUN 22 1998 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: THE FIRST THUNDERSTORM OF THE DAY HAS CREATED A WIND SHIFT LINE ACROSS THE DENVER METRO AREA. THIS HAS LESSENED THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER FARTHER NORTH IN THE GREELEY AND FORT COLLINS AREA. THE MAIN AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON WILL BE IN THE AREA BETWEEN DENVER AND LAST CHANCE. FARTHER EAST...THE AIRMASS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING FROM LAST CHANCE AND NEW RAYMER EAST. HAIL IN THE ONE TO TWO INCH DIAMETER RANGE WILL BE THE MAIN FEATURE OF STORMS THIS EVENING...BUT DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED IN THE DENVER AREA. YOU CAN REPORT SEVEVRE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHO WILL RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GIMMESTAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver, Jefferson | 42 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.