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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

October 10, 2013Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2013, 6:31 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 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
Oct 10, 2013, 6:31 PM MDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 10, 2013, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 2013-10-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 240 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 2013-10-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 327 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
240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
583 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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 Oct 10, 3:01 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 3:01 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 10:38 AM MDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
1038 AM MDT THU OCT 10 2013

COZ030>051-111645-
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-
1038 AM MDT THU OCT 10 2013

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING...

...HIGH WINDS WATCH LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING IN AND
NEAR THE FOOTHILLS...

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STORM SYSTEM NOW OVER ARIZONA WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS SNOW WILL
INCREASE IN THE MOUNTAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE
OVERNIGHT. IN ADDITION GUSTY WEST WINDS UP TO 50 MPH WILL PRODUCE
AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW AND POOR VISIBILITIES OVERNIGHT OVER THE
HIGHER PASSES.

AT LOWER ELEVATIONS THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE NORTHEAST PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF
THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE NORTHEAST OF A FORT MORGAN TO AKRON
LINE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IN
ADDITION GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 30 TO 50 MPH WILL DEVELOP ACROSS
THE PALMER DIVIDE TOWARDS THE LIMON AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL.

BY LATE TONIGHT STRONG WINDS MAY DEVELOP IN AND NEAR THE FOOTHILLS
AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH POSSIBLE AT TIMES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

WINDS WILL START TO DECREASE OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND ADJACENT
PLAINS FRIDAY MORNING AS THE MAIN STORM SYSTEM EXITS TO THE
NORTHEAST. HOWEVER A SECOND WEAKER SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE AREA
FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THIS SYSTEM WILL
LIKELY KEEP SNOW FALLING IN THE MOUNTAINS AND BRING ISOLATED TO
SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS TO NORTHEAST COLORADO.

ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM MAY AFFECT THE REGION LATE SUNDAY INTO
MONDAY WITH THE MOUNTAINS HAVING THE BEST CHANCE AT SEEING
PRECIPITATION. HOWEVER THE PLAINS MAY SEE SOME RAIN SHOWERS
POSSIBLY TRANSITIONING TO SNOW SHOWERS MONDAY EVENING.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS MONDAY
AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE FAR
NORTHEAST PLAINS OF COLORADO.

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.