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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 27, 2005Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 8:25 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 27, 2005, 8:25 PM MDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2005, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2005-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 2005-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
230 PM MDT MON JUN 27 2005

.SHORT TERM...LACK OF MID LEVEL MOISTURE TODAY COMPARED WITH
YESTERDAY SO CONSEQUENTLY NOTHING SO FAR AND MAY WELL NEVER GET ANY
STORMS THIS EVENING.  REMOVED ISOLATED POPS FROM SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS
OF AREA EARLIER.  CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS SOME CU
DEVELOPMENT NEAR THE WY BORDER AT SOUTHERN END OF WHERE THERE IS
BETTER MID LEVEL MOISTURE.  WILL LIKELY GO AHEAD AND LEAVE THE
ISOLATED POPS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS THOUGH MAY TRIM BACK TO
ZERO IF THINGS DONT DEVELOP ANY MORE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.  THERE
IS ALSO AN AREA OF CU THAT HAS DEVELOPED ALONG A VERY WEAK
CONVERGENCE ZONE IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND THERE IS HIGHER
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO THE EAST SO THIS ACTIVITY COULD DEVELOP NORTH
INTO PHILLIPS AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES.  ADDITIONALLY DWFE MODELS AND
OUR LATEST MM5 LOCAL MODEL ALL SHOW STRONG DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR
OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS EVENING AND SOME OF THIS COULD DRIFT INTO
THE NORTHEAST CORNER.  THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY SEND SOME MOIST
OUTFLOW INTO THE NORTHEAST LATER TONIGHT AND THIS COULD ACT AS A
BOUNDARY FOR TOMORROWS ACTIVITY...ALTHO LATEST MODELS TEND TO DRIFT
THIS BOUNDARY FARTHER EAST AND THE ATMOSPHERE WILL LIKELY BE
CAPPED...SO WILL KEEP ANY THREAT ON THE PLAINS TO LATE IN THE DAY.
IN THE MOUNTAINS DO EXPECT CHANCE OF CONVECTION TO RETURN AS A PLUME
OF MIDLEVEL MOISTURE IS FORECAST TO MOVE NORTH FROM BOTH AZ AND FROM
MOISTURE NOW MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CA.  AGAIN LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE
LATER IN THE AFTERNOON AND CURRENT POPS FOR THIS LOOK GOOD.

.LONG TERM...UPPER TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT TO PASS
ACROSS AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. MODEL CROSS SECTIONS SHOW
LITTLE IN THE WAY OF ANY LOW LEVEL MOISTURE.  HOWEVER...INCREASING
LAPSE RATES ALONG WITH DIV-Q QG ASCENT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SUPPORT
SOME MAINLY HIGH BASED STORMS.  HOWEVER...BEST CHANCE FOR ANY
MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION APPEARS TO BE THURSDAY WHEN LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE INCREASES IN SOUTHEAST FLOW.  FAVORABLE LAPSE RATES AND
INCREASING VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WARRANT INCREASING THE POPS TO
SCATTERED ACROSS PLAINS.  COULD BE A FEW SEVERE STORMS AS FORECAST
CAPES DURING AFTERNOON RANGE FROM 1000-1500 J/JG.  ACTIVITY COULD
LINGER INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS FRIDAY AS DIV-Q QG ASCENT SHOWS
SOME LIFT LINGERING OVER AREA.  BY FRI AFTERNOON...SUBSIDENCE
BECOMES DOMINANT WHICH SHOULD PUT AN END TO ANY CONVECTION.  AS FOR
TEMPERATURES...LOWERED MAX GRIDS A BIT THURSDAY GIVEN SLIGHTLY LOWER
THICKNESS PROGS.

FROM SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...LOOKS WARM AND DRY AS UPPER LEVEL
RIDGE BUILDS OVER REGION.  COULD BE SOME FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS FOR
THE WEEKEND AS IT APPEARS THAT AFTERNOON HUMIDITY READINGS COULD HIT
SINGLE DIGITS.  GFS HINTS AT A FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO
LATE SUNDAY WHICH COULD PROVIDE FOR SOME CONVECTION MONDAY IF SURFACE
WINDS BECOME SOUTHEAST.  WILL KEEP THINGS DRY FOR NOW...AND WAIT
FOR LATER RUNS TO COMPOSE A CLEARER PICTURE.

&&

.BOU...NONE.

&&

SZOKE/LESZCYNSKI/046
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 11:01 AM MDT, 9 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1101 AM MDT MON JUN 27 2005

COZ030>051-281200-
JACKSON COUNTY BELOW 9000 FEET-WEST JACKSON AND WEST GRAND
COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-GRAND AND SUMMIT COUNTIES BELOW 9000
FEET-SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/
NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST
GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/
SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-LARIMER AND
BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET-JEFFERSON AND WEST
DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK
COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY-LARIMER
COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY-BOULDER AND JEFFERSON
COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-NORTH DOUGLAS
COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/
EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES
ABOVE 6000 FEET-NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD
COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES-
NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN
COUNTY-SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN
COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS
COUNTY-
1101 AM MDT MON JUN 27 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL
COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

MID LEVEL MOISTURE HAS PUSHED EAST TODAY SO MOST AREAS WILL BE DRY
TODAY AND TONIGHT.  ISOLATED LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS COULD
OCCUR OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA AND POSSIBLY IN THE EXTREME
NORTHEAST THIS EVENING BUT SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY
THROUGH THURSDAY.  SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

SZOKE/LESZCYNSKI

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 6:23 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan52 min
Jun 27, 7:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Sedgwick49 min
Jun 27, 7:57 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULogan, Sedgwick33 min
Jun 28, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan30 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.