Alert archive / Colorado / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this snow advisory at Mar 16, 2008, 1:47 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 17, 2008, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2008, 1:47 PM MDT (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2008, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2008, 6:37 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Park County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow advisory 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 snow advisory went out at Mar 16, 4:00 AM MDT, 9 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 4:00 AM MDT, 9 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 11:14 AM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1114 AM MDT SUN MAR 16 2008 COZ030>051-171200- 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- 1114 AM MDT SUN MAR 16 2008 ...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST COLORADO... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STORM SYSTEM STRUGGLING TO ORGANIZE OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST HAS YET TO HAVE MUCH IMPACT ON THE OUTLOOK AREA AS OF LATE SUNDAY MORNING. HOWEVER AS THIS STORM SYSTEM GRADUALLY MOVES EAST THIS AFTERNOON...EXPECT LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW TO SPREAD NORTHWARD OVER THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS AND SOUTH PARK. ON THE PLAINS BECAUSE OF THE SLOW PROGRESS OF THIS WEATHER SYSTEM...SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DEVELOP UNTIL MUCH LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FURTHERMORE DUE TO THE EXTENSIVE LOW CLOUD COVER OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST COLORADO...THE CHANCE FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS MINIMAL AT BEST. BY TONIGHT...SNOW SHOULD BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD IN THE HIGH COUNTRY WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF ACCUMULATION BY MORNING. ON THE PLAINS...SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS THIS EVENING SHOULD QUICKLY CHANGE OVER TO SNOW BY AROUND MIDNIGHT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS. IN AREAS UP ALONG THE FRONT RANGE SEVERAL INCHES OF WET SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE BY MORNING. WHEREAS IN AREAS OUT NEAR THE EASTERN BORDER...PRECIPITATION OVERNIGHT MAY REMAIN AS RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WIDESPREAD SNOW IS EXPECTED ON MONDAY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ON THE PLAINS WITH 8 TO 16 INCHES ON THE EAST SLOPES OF THE FRONT RANGE. A CHANCE OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE IN THE MOUNTAINS FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE FROM THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. THE PLAINS WILL BE DRY FROM MONDAY EVENING INTO NEXT WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL BE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL NORMALS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. BAKER/RPK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 1:47 PM MDT | Heavy Snow Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 10 more | 19 hr |
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.