Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2006, 4:22 PM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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 19, 2006, 4:22 PM MDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2006, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 19, 3:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 11:06 AM MDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1106 AM MDT MON JUN 19 2006 COZ030>051-201200- 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- 1106 AM MDT MON JUN 19 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS FROM 12 PM MDT UNTIL 8 PM MDT TODAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ON THE NORTHEAST PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING A DAY OF HOT TEMPERATURES...VERY LOW HUMIDITIES...AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS TO THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS. THIS...ALONG WITH DRY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL BE COMMON...BUT GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS. ON THE PLAINS...MOISTURE WAS MORE PLENTIFUL...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND CHEYENNE RIDGE BY MID AFTERNOON AND THEN SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS THE PLAINS BY EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH ARE THE MAIN THREAT...BUT THERE IS ALSO POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE HIGHEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM GREELEY TO LIMON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY DAILY ROUNDS OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK. THE BULK OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ON THE PLAINS WHERE MORE ABUNDANT SURFACE MOISTURE WILL RESIDE. SOME SEVERE WEATHER MAY BE POSSIBLE EAST OF DENVER... ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY. IN THE HIGH COUNTRY...ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS OF COLORADO AFTER 3 PM. GIMMESTAD/DANKERS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:56 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 26 min |
| Jun 19, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.