Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 12:48 PM MST for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 12:48 PM MST (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 1:15 PM MST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:45 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 071951 SVRDEN COC039-073-072015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1248 PM MST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 115 PM MST * AT 1248 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF LIMON...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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3927 10377 3927 10358 3956 10348 3956 10383 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, 9:49 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 10:25 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 3:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 32 min |
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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.