Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 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), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 27, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KBOU 272031 SVRDEN COC073-272100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 230 PM MDT SUN MAY 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 300 PM MDT * AT 230 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORDER...OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...FORDER... KARVAL...PUNKIN CENTER AND WILD HORSE POINT. 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 3885 10403 3852 10405 3851 10350 3884 10350
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 27, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 43 min |
| May 27, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 37 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.