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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 14, 2024, 1:05 AM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 14, 2024, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2024, 1:05 AM MDT (07:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2024, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2024, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Washington County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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 nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 383 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
- 3655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Apr 13, 11:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 11:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:30 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:13 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:26 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 12 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.