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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

March 30, 201213 counties in Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this fire weather watch at Mar 30, 2012, 4:16 PM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 1, 2012, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2012, 4:16 PM MDT (22:16 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 1, 2012, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 31, 2012, 4:14 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Grand County, CO, Jackson County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Park County, CO, Summit County, CO, Washington County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 306 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2012-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2012-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 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
Mar 30, 4:16 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOUArapahoe, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson and 1 more28 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.