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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2024, 3:18 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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, 2024, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2024, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 343 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
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 2:52 PM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:52 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 10:10 AM MDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Denver/Boulder CO 1010 AM MDT Tue May 28 2024 COZ030>051-291615- Jackson County Below 9000 Feet- West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet- Grand and Summit Counties Below 9000 Feet- South and East Jackson/Larimer/North and Northeast Grand/ Northwest Boulder Counties Above 9000 Feet- South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/ Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet-Larimer and Boulder Counties Between 6000 and 9000 Feet- Jefferson and West Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Northeast Park Counties Below 9000 Feet- Central and Southeast Park County- Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County- Boulder And Jefferson Counties Below 6000 Feet/West Broomfield County- North Douglas County Below 6000 Feet/Denver/West Adams and Arapahoe Counties/East Broomfield County- Elbert/Central and East Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet- Northeast Weld County-Central and South Weld County-Morgan County- Central and East Adams and Arapahoe Counties- North and Northeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/North Lincoln County- Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County- Logan County-Washington County-Sedgwick County-Phillips County- 1010 AM MDT Tue May 28 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for northeast and north central Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Scattered thunderstorms and showers are favored to develop late afternoon mainly along the southern foothills, Palmer Divide, and Lincoln county through tonight. These storms may produce small hail, and wind gusts up to 40 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday Afternoon and evening thunderstorms are expected Wednesday, some of which may be severe with mostly a hail and wind threat for the rural plains. There will be a lesser severe threat but continued isolated to scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms Thursday into Friday, with a gradually drier pattern thereafter. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed today or tonight.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 1:54 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Denver CO
211 PM MDT Tue May 28 2024
COZ036-282100-
Jefferson and West Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet/Gilpin/Clear
Creek/Northeast Park Counties Below 9000 Feet CO-
211 PM MDT Tue May 28 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM MDT...
At 211 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cheesman Reservoir, or 34 miles northwest of Colorado Springs, moving
east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Westcreek, Cheesman Reservoir, Deckers, Perry Park, and Devil's Head.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3929 10532 3935 10497 3931 10497 3927 10495
3925 10495 3923 10496 3921 10494 3913 10494
3913 10533
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 265DEG 11KT 3921 10522
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
HIRISThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Elbert | 51 min |
| May 28, 2:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Douglas | 49 min |
| May 28, 3:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 28, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 48 min |
| May 28, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 28, 4:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 28, 4:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 28, 5:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Lincoln | 25 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.