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Winter Storm Warning 12, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 19, 201912 counties in Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this winter storm warning at May 19, 2019, 2:56 PM MDT for 12 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 20, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 26 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 19, 2019, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
In effect from
May 20, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
May 21, 2019, 2:25 PM MDT
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Counties Arapahoe County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Grand County, CO, Jackson County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Park County, CO, Summit County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 2019-05-19Temperature 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 2019-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 6:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOULarimer36 min
May 18, 6:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOUWeld33 min
May 19, 4:31 AM MDTWinter Storm WatchBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more10 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Colorado, 2019Every winter storm warning in 2019

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.