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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 529

July 8, 20014 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY, Weston County, WY

Warnings issued inside it

13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington46 min
Jul 8, 3:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster59 min
Jul 8, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington29 min
Jul 8, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster47 min
Jul 8, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster60 min
Jul 8, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Pennington55 min
Jul 8, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River40 min
Jul 8, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie60 min
Jul 8, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River30 min
Jul 8, 7:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster54 min
Jul 8, 8:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie54 min
Jul 8, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie66 min
Jul 8, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River43 min

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 2001-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 264 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 2001-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -59 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
264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-340 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Deuel and 10 more5 hr
Jul 8, 2:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Garfield and 11 more3 hr
Jul 8, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 14 more6 hr

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.