Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2021, 4:32 PM MDT for Arapahoe County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2021, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2021, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Arapahoe County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
617
WUUS55 KBOU 192232
SVRBOU
COC005-192300-
/O.NEW.KBOU.SV.W.0142.210819T2232Z-210819T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Denver CO
432 PM MDT Thu Aug 19 2021
The National Weather Service in Denver Colorado has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Arapahoe County in northeastern Colorado...
* Until 500 PM MDT.
* At 432 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles south of
Byers, or 37 miles east of Denver, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Hail damage to
vehicles is expected.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
central Arapahoe County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3974 10434 3974 10406 3957 10412 3956 10437
TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 255DEG 29KT 3964 10425
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$
RPK1 follow-up statement
122
WWUS55 KBOU 192301
SVSBOU
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Denver CO
501 PM MDT Thu Aug 19 2021
COC005-192310-
/O.EXP.KBOU.SV.W.0142.000000T0000Z-210819T2300Z/
Arapahoe CO-
501 PM MDT Thu Aug 19 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL ARAPAHOE COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been allowed to expire. However small
hail, gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with this
thunderstorm.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM MDT for
northeastern and east central Colorado.
LAT...LON 3974 10434 3974 10406 3957 10412 3956 10437
TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 255DEG 29KT 3970 10397
$$
RPKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Logan | 22 min |
| Aug 19, 2:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Logan | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 2:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Broomfield | 17 min |
| Aug 19, 2:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Broomfield | 28 min |
| Aug 19, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Boulder, Broomfield, Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 30 min |
| Aug 19, 2:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Broomfield, Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 2:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Adams | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 3:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas | 18 min |
| Aug 19, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 14 min |
| Aug 19, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 3:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas | 22 min |
| Aug 19, 3:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Weld | 30 min |
| Aug 19, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 4:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Logan | 54 min |
| Aug 19, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 4:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Phillips | 95 min |
| Aug 19, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 43 min |
| Aug 19, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 4:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips | 26 min |
| Aug 19, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 4:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOU | Logan | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 4:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 30 min |
| Aug 19, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 5:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Phillips | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 26 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.