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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2020, 5:09 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 7 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2020, 5:09 PM MDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2020, 5:16 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Elbert County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 3, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Crowley | 20 min |
| Aug 2, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 7:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Elbert | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 7:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Crowley | 22 min |
| Aug 2, 7:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Elbert | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 8:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Elbert | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 8:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 1:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Jackson | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer | 13 min |
| Aug 3, 3:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 3:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Boulder | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Jefferson, Park | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 5:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Arapahoe | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 5:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Elbert | 34 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.