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Special Weather Statement, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2015, 1:13 PM MDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2015, 1:13 PM MDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2015, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Douglas County, CO, Jefferson County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 8, 11:01 AM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 11:01 AM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 1114 AM MDT FRI MAY 8 2015 COZ030>051-091715- 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- 1114 AM MDT FRI MAY 8 2015 ...WINTER STORM WATCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE WET AND COOL WEATHER PATTERN ACROSS COLORADO WILL CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT AS UPSLOPE WINDS AT LOW LEVELS COMBINE WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE MORE WIDESPREAD RAIN SHIELD...PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AT TIMES. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE PALMER DIVIDE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY A BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUD OR SHORT-LIVED TORNADO WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL BE RUNNING HIGH FROM THE RECENT DAYS OF WET WEATHER AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY. THE SNOW LEVEL IN THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE AROUND 9000 FEET TODAY LOWERING TO ABOUT 8500 FEET TONIGHT. AREAS ABOUT 9000 FEET COULD SEEN 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW WHILE UP TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AREAS ABOVE 10500 FEETE. THE MOUNTAIN PASSES WILL MAINLY BE WET BUT COULD HAVE BECOME SNOW AND SLUSH COVERED AT TIMES ESPECIALLY DURING HEAVIER SHOWERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE FOUR CORNERS SATURDAY INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS BY SUNDAY MORNING. THIS SYSTEM TRIGGER MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY WITH HEAVY SNOW POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS BY AFTERNOON. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE PLAINS SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY EVENING. HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THE SEVERE STORMS. BY SATURDAY NIGHT...COLDER TEMPERATURES WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO WHICH WILL ALLOW THE RAIN TO CHANGE TO SNOW. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR A BAND OF HEAVY WET SNOW SOMEHWERE ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND ACROSS THE PLAINS INTO EARLY SUNDAY. TRAVEL IN THE MOUNTAINS MAY BECOME DIFFICULT AT TIMES DUE TO SNOW COVERED ROADS...ESPECIALLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. A DRYING TREND IS EXPECTED BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A FLAT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO GRADUALLY RETURN TO SEASONAL NORMALS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 8, 11:50 AM MDT, 1 hour 23 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 7, 6:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 34 min |
| May 8, 11:08 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 10 more | 60 hr |
| May 8, 11:50 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Elbert | 55 min |
| May 8, 2:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Jefferson | 89 min |
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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.