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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Grand Junction, CO

August 28, 2000Eagle County, Colorado

NWS Grand Junction, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2000, 7:44 PM MDT for Eagle County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 2000, 7:44 PM MDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Junction, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Eagle County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 297 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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.