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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:17 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 29 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.