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Tornado Watch 442
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 4, 2010, 12:39 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; 4 counties in Nebraska; Albany County, Carbon County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2010, 12:39 PM MDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2010, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
49 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Carbon | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 2:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Laramie, Platte | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 2:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 27 min |
| Jul 4, 2:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Goshen, Laramie, Platte | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 3:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Goshen, Laramie | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Albany, Platte | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 3:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Goshen, Laramie | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 3:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Albany, Laramie | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 19 min |
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 5:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Albany, Laramie, Platte | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 5:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Elbert | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 24 min |
| Jul 4, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 5:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 5:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 6:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne, Kimball | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 6:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 6:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 6:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Larimer | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 6:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne, Morrill | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 7:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 18 min |
| Jul 4, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 7:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 7:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 8:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 8:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 8:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Morrill | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:30 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Larimer, Weld | 90 min |
| Jul 4, 2:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garfield, Mesa, Montrose, Rio Blanco, San Miguel | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 3:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jul 4, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 7:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Garfield and 8 more | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 9:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Garfield and 8 more | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 10:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Knox, Loup and 2 more | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 1:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richardson | 116 min |
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.