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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

April 24, 20216 counties in Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this fire weather watch at Apr 24, 2021, 3:17 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 26, 2021, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2021, 3:17 PM MDT (21:17 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 26, 2021, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Apr 26, 2021, 3:12 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2021-04-24Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2021-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
218 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
Apr 24, 3:17 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln29 hr

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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.