Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2021, 5:00 PM MDT for Adams County, Morgan County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Adams County, CO, Morgan County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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.
061
WUUS55 KBOU 192300
SVRBOU
COC001-087-192330-
/O.NEW.KBOU.SV.W.0144.210819T2300Z-210819T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Denver CO
500 PM MDT Thu Aug 19 2021
The National Weather Service in Denver Colorado has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Morgan County in northeastern Colorado...
Northeastern Adams County in northeastern Colorado...
* Until 530 PM MDT.
* At 459 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles west of
Adena, or 17 miles southwest of Fort Morgan, moving northeast at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. People and
animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to
roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
Adena around 510 PM MDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3998 10382 3990 10408 4001 10415 4011 10415
4018 10394
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 241DEG 17KT 4004 10398
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.50 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
RPK1 follow-up statement
404
WWUS55 KBOU 192328 RRA
SVSBOU
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Denver CO
528 PM MDT Thu Aug 19 2021
COC001-087-192338-
/O.EXP.KBOU.SV.W.0144.000000T0000Z-210819T2330Z/
Morgan CO-Adams CO-
528 PM MDT Thu Aug 19 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN MORGAN AND
NORTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 530 PM MDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM MDT for
northeastern Colorado.
LAT...LON 3998 10382 3990 10408 4001 10415 4011 10415
4018 10394
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 241DEG 17KT 4010 10383
$$
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, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 28 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, 5:04 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.