Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 9:49 AM MST for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 9:49 AM MST (16:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 10:20 AM MST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 10:03 AM MST | Hail 1.5 | Karval, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:45 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDEN 071652 SVRDEN COC073-071720- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 949 AM MST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 1020 AM MST * AT 949 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 41 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL 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 3853 10403$ 3852 10379 3885 10372 3885 10403 GARD...WFO BOULDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2:51 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 3:28 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 10:25 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 12:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 27 min |
| Mar 7, 3:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.