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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 10, 2010Logan County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2010, 3:02 PM MDT for Logan County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 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
May 10, 2010, 3:02 PM MDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2010, 3:28 PM MDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Logan County, CO

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 2010-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2010-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 May 10, 4:08 AM MDT, 10 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 4:08 AM MDT, 10 hours 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 10:52 AM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1052 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

COZ030>051-111200-
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-
1052 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL
COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS
THE MOUNTAINS...FOOTHILLS...AND IMMEDIATE PLAINS AT THIS TIME.  THIS
IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.  STRONG WIND GUSTS
UP TO 60 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS.  THERE COULD
BE SMALL HAIL AS WELL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A STRONG SPRING STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN UTAH TUESDAY
AFTERNOON...AND THEN TRACK ACROSS COLORADO TUESDAY NIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY MORNING.  PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE
MOUNTAINS TUESDAY...AND THEN SPREAD ACROSS THE PLAINS TUESDAY
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.  HEAVY SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY OVER THE
FRONT RANGE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS.  IN ADDITION...TEMPERATURES MAY
BE COLD ENOUGH TO BRING SNOW INTO THE URBAN CORRIDOR AND PORTIONS OF
THE PLAINS AS WELL...ESPECIALLY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY.

THERE IS STILL CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY WITH THE TRACK OF THE
STORM...AND ANY VARIATION TO THIS TRACK WILL HAVE EXTREMELY LARGE
IMPLICATIONS ON TEMPERATURES AND THE AMOUNT OF SNOWFALL AT ANY GIVEN
LOCATION.  STAY TUNED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR YOUR LOCAL
NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

RJK/GIMMESTAD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOUWashington47 min
May 10, 3:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan11 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.