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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 233

June 5, 201425 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2014, 2:43 PM MDT for 25 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2014, 2:43 PM MDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2014, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 27 counties

Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Otero County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Teller County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert47 min
Jun 5, 3:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert33 min
Jun 5, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert47 min
Jun 5, 4:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas42 min
Jun 5, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln40 min
Jun 5, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Denver35 min
Jun 5, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas46 min
Jun 5, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln51 min
Jun 5, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas48 min
Jun 5, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Denver, Douglas24 min
Jun 5, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Douglas, Elbert17 min
Jun 5, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln47 min
Jun 5, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas51 min
Jun 5, 6:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso32 min
Jun 5, 6:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion55 min
Jun 5, 6:42 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln33 min
Jun 5, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa49 min
Jun 5, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne16 min
Jun 5, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion20 min
Jun 5, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Prowers39 min
Jun 5, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUDouglas, Elbert35 min
Jun 5, 8:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso56 min
Jun 5, 8:11 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers34 min
Jun 5, 8:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union58 min
Jun 5, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, Otero, Pueblo51 min
Jun 5, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso43 min
Jun 5, 8:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso41 min
Jun 5, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert36 min
Jun 5, 8:42 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers33 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-06-05Temperature 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -70 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
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:09 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 5 more96 min
Jun 4, 10:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln85 min
Jun 4, 11:06 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson4 hr
Jun 5, 2:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 16 more95 min
Jun 4, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCraig, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington7 hr
Jun 5, 1:42 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCOttawa93 min
Jun 5, 5:04 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCraig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Rogers, Washington86 min
Jun 5, 5:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay and 14 more6 hr
Jun 5, 6:40 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay and 16 more2 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.