Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 307
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 25, 2018, 1:22 PM MDT for 14 counties in Colorado; Albany County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2018, 1:22 PM MDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2018, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Park County, CO, Teller County, CO, Weld County, CO, Albany County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Albany, Laramie | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 3:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 43 min |
| Jul 25, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 4:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Laramie | 117 min |
| Jul 25, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 38 min |
| Jul 25, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 30 min |
| Jul 25, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Weld | 17 min |
| Jul 25, 5:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 87 min |
| Jul 25, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Boulder, Broomfield | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Weld | 52 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 12:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 7 more | 57 min |
| Jul 25, 12:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 14 more | 2 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.