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Tornado Watch 321
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2005, 12:45 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2005, 12:45 PM MDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2005, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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.
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 23 min |
| May 24, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 45 min |
| May 24, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 62 min |
| May 24, 2:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Weld | 48 min |
| May 24, 2:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 39 min |
| May 24, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 49 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| May 24, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 24 min |
| May 24, 4:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 51 min |
| May 24, 5:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 20 min |
| May 24, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver, Jefferson | 32 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 2 more | 67 min |
| May 24, 12:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 14 more | 117 min |
| May 24, 1:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 4:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more | 92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.