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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 19, 1999Washington County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1999, 8:25 PM MDT for Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1999, 8:25 PM MDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1999, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Washington County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 19, 8:30 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 70Akron, COViolent thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and flattened crops near Midway.
Jul 19, 8:35 PM MDTHail 0.75Akron, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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.

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 19, 3:40 AM MDT, 16 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:40 AM MDT, 16 hours 45 minutes before
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO
340 AM MDT MON JUL 19 1999

NO REAL BIG CHANGES IN THE OVERALL FLOW PATTERN THROUGH THE PERIOD
AS LARGE ANTICYCLONE STAYS PARKED OVER THE GREAT PLAINS THROUGH
TUESDAY.  THIS WILL KEEP THE MOIST SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER THE
AREA FOR THE CONTINUED THREAT OF AFTERNOON/EVENING CONVECTION...SOME
OF WHICH WILL PRODUCE SOME HEAVY RAINS.  WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGE
SHOWING SOME KIND OF A BACK EDGE TO THE DEEPER MOISTURE MOVING
SLOWLY NORTHEAST ACROSS ARIZONA THIS MORNING.  THIS LENDS SOME
SUPPORT TO THE MINOR DRYING TREND THAT THE MODELS ARE SHOWING FOR
TUESDAY.   FURTHER DOWN THE LINE THE MRF IS WANTING TO PUSH THE
RIDGE TO A POSITION OVERHEAD OR SLIGHTLY TO OUR WEST BY FRIDAY WHICH
WOULD TEND TO SHUT OFF THE MOISTURE SUPPLY SOMEWHAT...DECREASING THE
THREAT OF AFTERNOON CONVECTION.  DONT HAVE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE IN
THIS HAPPENING AT THIS TIME OF YEAR SO WONT BE YANKING AROUND
CURRENT FORECAST.  ET

.DEN...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUMorgan, Weld52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.