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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 11, 2006Washington County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2006, 7:52 PM MDT for Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 23 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
Jul 11, 2006, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2006, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washington County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 376 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2006-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 939 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2006-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
939 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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.