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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

August 5, 2013Phillips County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2013, 7:59 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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
Aug 5, 2013, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2013, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Phillips County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 2013-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1833 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 2013-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington30 min
Aug 6, 4:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOUArapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln27 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.