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Snow Advisory 7, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this snow advisory at Mar 30, 2008, 5:03 AM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 30, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2008, 5:03 AM MDT (11:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 30, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Boulder County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Grand County, CO, Jackson County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Park County, CO, Summit County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:05 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 3530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 29, 3:30 PM MDT, 13 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:30 PM MDT, 13 hours 33 minutes before
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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.