Alert archive / Colorado / Areal Flood Warnings in 2014
Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this areal flood warning at May 23, 2014, 1:32 AM MDT for Morgan County, Colorado. It was in force for 4 hr. 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 23, 2014, 1:32 AM MDT (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2014, 5:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Morgan County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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 (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at May 22, 8:41 PM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 8:41 PM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 10:41 AM MDT, 14 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 1041 AM MDT THU MAY 22 2014 COZ030>051-231645- 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- 1041 AM MDT THU MAY 22 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS BY MIDDAY WITH ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD EAST OVER THE FRONT RANGE AND PALMER DIVIDE BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO. THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM DENVER TO AKRON. HAIL UP TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER ALONG WITH A FEW WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. A FEW BRIEF TORNADOES COULD ALSO OCCUR. STORMS WILL BE SLOWER MOVING TODAY SO RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 2 INCHES COULD OCCUR IN LESS THAN 45 MINUTES OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO WHICH COULD LEAD TO SOME FLOODING. IN THE FOOTHILLS...A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN IN 45 MINUTES OR LESS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EXPECT ANOTHER DAY OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY. THERE WILL BE LESS OF A THREAT OF SEVERE STRENGTH STORMS...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN MAY LEAD TO POTENTIAL MINOR FLOODING ISSUES. SATURDAY WILL STILL HAVE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS BUT WITH SLIGHTLY LESS AVAILABLE MOISTURE. WRAP AROUND MOISTURE ON THE BACKSIDE THE DEPARTING STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING ANOTHER SHOT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AND EARLY MONDAY BEFORE THINGS DRY OUT AND WARM UP THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED BY 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE FRONT RANGE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 7:53 PM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 36 min |
| May 22, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 24 min |
| May 22, 7:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Washington | 37 min |
| May 22, 9:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 4 hr |
| May 23, 5:28 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOU | Morgan | 4 hr |
| May 23, 1:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Douglas | 38 min |
| May 23, 2:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Denver | 39 min |
| May 23, 4:26 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | BOU | Larimer | 38 hr |
| May 23, 4:26 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | BOU | Weld | 42 hr |
| May 23, 5:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Douglas | 3 hr |
| May 23, 5:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Larimer | 3 hr |
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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.