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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 22, 2010Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2010, 11:18 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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 22, 2010, 11:18 PM MDT (05:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2010, 11:53 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2010-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2746 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2010-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
7.5

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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 22, 3:06 PM MDT, 8 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:06 PM MDT, 8 hours 12 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.