Thunderstorm Wind, Douglas
- When
- June 28, 6:08 PM MST
- Where
- Douglas County, Parker
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.517, -104.767
Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 28, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 28, 1:35 PM MST, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:35 PM MST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO 110 PM MDT FRI JUN 28 2002 ...ADDITION TO WEEKEND PERIOD... SHORT TERM DISCUSSION: THIS EVENING ONGOING ISOLD WK CONVECTION OVR AND NR THE FRONT RNG SHOULD DISSIPATE QUICKLY BY AROUND SUNSET WITH AIRMASS DRY AND STGLY CAPPED ON THE PLAINS. WK DENVER CYCLONE HAS WASHED OUT AS SELY BNDRY LYR WINDS HV INCREASED. LATEST WINDS ALOFT ON PLATTEVILLE PROFILER QUITE LIGHT AND VARIABLE SO TSTORMS OVR THE HIGHER TRRN MAY HV A TOUGH TIME MOVING OFF OVR THE ADJACENT PLAINS. SHOULD SEE CLRG ALL AREAS BEFORE MIDNIGHT WITH MIN TEMPS SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT. DURING THE WEEKEND...TWO WEAK H7-H5 SHRT-WV TROUGHS BRUSH NRN HALF OF STATE. PASSAGE OF THE 2ND SHRTWV SUN ACCOMPANIED BY A WK SFC COLD FRONT WHICH IS PROGD TO SLIDE SWRD THRU NERN CO SUN MORNING. N-NELY POST-FRONTAL BNDRY LYR WINDS GO ELY SUN AFTN CAUSING SFC DEWPTS AND RHS TO RISE THRU THE DAY IN AND ALONG THE FRONT RANGE. UNFORTUNATELY MODEL DERIVED SOUNDINGS SHOW STRONG CAPPING OVER NERN PLAINS IN POST-FRONTAL ENVIRONMENT...WHILE CAP NOT AS STRONG IN AND ALONG FRONT RANGE AND OVR MONUMENT RIDGE. THUS WILL KP CHANCES FOR LATE AFTN AND EVE SHWRS/TSTMS IN THE 20-30 PCT RANGE WITH ISOLD TO SCT COVERAGE IN THESE AREAS. SAT WILL BE WARMEST OF TWO DAYS WITH 90S TO AROUND 100 ON THE PLAINS AND 70S/80S IN THE MTNS AND FTHLS. ON SUN DAYTIME TEMPS SVRL DEGS LOWER ACRS THE NERN CO PLAINS WITH ONLY A SLIGHT DIP IN THE MTNS AND HIGH VLYS WHERE COLD FRONT WILL HV NO AFFECT. ERLY NEXT WEEK...HOT TEMPS RETURN WITH STG RIDGING AND LGT W-SWLY FLOW ALOFT. MON ALSO LOOKS QUITE DRY WITH STG SUBSIDENCE. THEN LATER IN THE WEEK...MEDIUM RNG MDLS SHOW A SLOW/GRDL INCREASE IN MID-LVL MOISTURE WITH UPR RIDGE SHIFTING EAST ALLOWING SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE TO CREEP UP FM THE HIGHLANDS OF NRN MEX. CURRENT FCST PKG HAS A SLIGHT CHC OF AFTN/EVE TSTMS THRU THE EXTENDED PD. FOR NOW WILL LEAVE FCST AS IS BUT LATER SHIFTS MAY END UP ELEVATING POP CHCS SHOULD MODELS CLOSE TO REALITY. LOOKING FOR TEMPS THRU EXTENDED PD TO BE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABV NORMAL. BAKER .DEN...NONE.
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:10 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Michigan, June 28, 2002
- Rip Current in Alabama, June 28, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, June 28, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Montana, June 28, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 28, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, June 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Montana, June 28, 2002
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 28 to 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, June 2002
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5305255.