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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 24, 2004Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 8:29 PM MDT for Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2004, 8:29 PM MDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2004, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Weld County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 8:47 PM MDTHAIL 0.75Lochbuie, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 62 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
62 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 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 250229
SVRBOU
COC123-250315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
828 PM MDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN WELD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 915 PM MDT

* AT 828 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL BROOMFIELD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTH OF DENVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
FORT LUPTON...HUDSON AND LOCHBUIE.

HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED
WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR
IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 4006 10491 4011 10479 4018 10462 4001 10452
          4001 10481 4001 10482 4001 10500

$$

GIMMESTAD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Broomfield, Weld47 min
May 24, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Denver, Weld47 min
May 24, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Boulder, Broomfield, Jefferson43 min
May 24, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld50 min
May 24, 11:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.