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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this red flag warning at May 7, 2024, 3:05 AM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It took effect at May 7, 2024, 11:00 AM 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
- May 7, 2024, 3:05 AM MDT (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2024, 5:42 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 403 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
- 2631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 May 6, 5:35 PM MDT, 9 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 5:35 PM MDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:07 AM MDT | Freeze Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 29 hr |
| May 7, 3:09 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 21 hr |
| May 7, 4:07 PM MDT | Frost Advisory | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 7 more | 16 hr |
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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.