Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 5:31 PM MDT for Adams County, Morgan County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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 24, 2016, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Adams County, CO, Morgan County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
895
WUUS55 KBOU 242331
SVRBOU
COC001-087-250000-
/O.NEW.KBOU.SV.W.0028.160524T2331Z-160525T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
531 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...
NORTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 530 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER TWELVE-MILE
CORNER...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF FORT MORGAN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. A SPOTTER IN SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY
REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL AT 525 PM MDT.
IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BRUSH...TWELVE-MILE CORNER...ADENA SCHOOL...ADENA AND GARY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...IF ONE IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A WELL-BUILT STRUCTURE. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
COLORADO.
LAT...LON 4004 10350 4000 10361 4000 10370 3996 10370
3988 10393 4013 10394 4027 10364
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 251DEG 24KT 4006 10382
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
DANKERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| May 24, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Jefferson | 30 min |
| May 24, 1:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Broomfield, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 24, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver | 25 min |
| May 24, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Broomfield, Weld | 45 min |
| May 24, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 47 min |
| May 24, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 24 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Washington | 27 min |
| May 24, 5:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 31 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.