Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Issued

Jul 29, 2002, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)

Expired

Jul 29, 2002, 8:55 PM MDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Elbert County, CO

The Denver radar (KFTG), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
755 PM MDT MON JUL 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 855 PM MDT

* AT 755 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIOWA...OR ABOUT 34 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF DENVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...ELIZABETH
AND KIOWA.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DENVER.

LAT...LON 3943 10462 3921 10458 3924 10417 3944 10437

SWE

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 29, 3:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO
310 PM MDT MON JUL 29 2002

TGT-THU...MRF BLDS UPR RDG OVR CNTRL RCKYS THRU PRD WHICH WILL KEEP
THE AMS SUBSIDENT AND GNLY DRY ON TUE AND WED.  HWVR LUKS LIKE SUM
RETURN LO LVL MSTR OVR PALMER DVD ON TUE AFTN AND EVE SO WILL KEEP
ISOLD SHWRS AND TSTMS THERE.  APPARENT ONSET OF MONSOONAL FLO ALF
ALG WITH WK SURGE OF HI PRES ON HI PLAINS WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE
SCT SHWRS AND TSTMS MTNS AND ISOLD SHWRS AND TSTMS PLAINS ON THU.
UNTIL THEN TEMPS WILL BECOME OUT RIGHT HOT ESPCLY ON THE PLAINS AS
MAX TEMPS REACH INTO LO 100S BY WED.  WITH MORE MSTR ALF AND WK
CDFNT TEMPS WILL NOT BE AS HOT ON THU.  FVR THE WRMR OF MOS TEMP
GDNC FOR MAX TEMPS AND AN AVG OF MOS MIN GDNC.

...MONSOON FOREVER...

IN XTNDD PRD...FRI-MON...MIGHTY MRF HAS FOUND THE LONG LOST MONSOON
MRF MAINTAINS UPR RDG OVR CNTRL RCKYS THRU PRD.  MRF H7-3 LYR RH AND
WNDS SHW GUD TROPICAL MONSOONAL FLO FM MEX ACRS DESERT SW INTO CNTRL
RCKYS UNDERNEATH THE UPR RDG.  EVEN DURING A DROUGHT YR THIS SHUD BE
GUD FOR SUM LATE DAY CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT.  WILL KEEP CURRENT FCST FOR
NOW AND ADD MON TO IT.  MAX TEMPS SHUD BE ARND SEASNL NORM WHILE MIN
TEMPS SHUD BE A SMIDGEN WARMER THN NORM DUE TO MORE MONSOONAL CLDNS.

GARD...WFO BOULDER

.DEN...NONE.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.