Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 424
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2006, 4:28 PM MDT for 18 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2006, 4:28 PM MDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2006, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 30, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 53 min |
| May 30, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 30, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| May 30, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 min |
| May 30, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 39 min |
| May 30, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 48 min |
| May 30, 9:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 86 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:30 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 4:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 10 more | 94 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.