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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2002, 5:40 PM MDT for Logan County, Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2002, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Logan County, CO, Washington County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:50 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Akron, CO | |
| Aug 24, 6:15 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Akron, CO | |
| Aug 24, 6:16 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Akron, CO | |
| Aug 24, 6:19 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Crook, CO | |
| Aug 24, 6:20 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Otis, CO | |
| Aug 24, 6:25 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Akron, CO | |
| Aug 24, 6:30 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Otis, CO | Large hail damaged several roofs and vehicles. |
| Aug 24, 6:36 PM MDT | Hail 2.5 | Platner, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 64 min |
| Aug 24, 12:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 3:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 5:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 41 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.