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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 22, 2010Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2010, 3:13 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 22, 2010, 3:13 PM MDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2010, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2010-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 114 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2010-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 1:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOUDouglas, Jefferson91 min
Jul 22, 2:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOULincoln47 min
Jul 22, 2:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOULincoln59 min
Jul 22, 2:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOUElbert, Lincoln2 hr
Jul 22, 3:46 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOULincoln2 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.