Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 5:26 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 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
- May 25, 2000, 5:26 PM MDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
042 WUUS55 KBOU 252327 SVRDEN COC073-260000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 526 PM MDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 526 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF HUGO...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...HUGO AND GENOA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 3939 10370 3894 10366 3900 10333 3946 10337 KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas | 31 min |
| May 25, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 30 min |
| May 25, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Boulder, Weld | 33 min |
| May 25, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 41 min |
| May 25, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 48 min |
| May 25, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Boulder | 23 min |
| May 25, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 52 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.