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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 28, 2001Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 4:58 PM MDT for Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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
May 28, 2001, 4:58 PM MDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2001, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Weld County, CO

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 12:00Z on 2001-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KBOU 282258
SVRDEN
COC001-005-031-059-282330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
458 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ARAPAHOE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
  SOUTHWESTERN DENVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SOUTHWESTERN DENVER
  NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 458 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL LAKEWOOD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST
  OF DENVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...ARVADA...
WEST CENTRAL COMMERCE CITY...SOUTHWESTERN DENVER...ENGLEWOOD...
LAKEWOOD...SOUTHWESTERN THORNTON...SOUTH CENTRAL WESTMINSTER...WHEAT
RIDGE...FEDERAL HEIGHTS...MORRISON AND SHERIDAN.

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL
BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

LAT...LON 3987 10516 3962 10520 39652 10493 3986 10492

KLEYLA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUJefferson, Park37 min
May 28, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Denver, Jefferson40 min
May 28, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUBoulder, Weld40 min
May 28, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson32 min
May 28, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Weld33 min
May 28, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUDenver33 min
May 28, 5:41 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe34 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.