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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 28, 2023Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2023, 3:58 PM MDT for Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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
May 28, 2023, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2023, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Weld County, CO

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 325 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 2023-05-28Temperature 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 2023-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -183 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
1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 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
May 27, 8:26 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOUMorgan, Weld3 hr
May 27, 8:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOUDouglas46 min
May 27, 9:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert17 min
May 27, 10:43 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOULogan, Washington3 hr
May 27, 11:21 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOUAdams, Morgan, Washington3 hr
May 27, 11:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOUPhillips3 hr
May 28, 2:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOUBoulder33 min
May 28, 2:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOULarimer37 min
May 28, 3:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOUBroomfield38 min
May 28, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld33 min
May 28, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld26 min
May 28, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Morgan, Weld31 min
May 28, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Washington47 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.