High Wind in Colorado, June 7, 2004

Name: High Wind in Colorado, June 7, 2004
Start: 2004-06-07T20:08
End: 2004-06-07T20:08
Location: Colorado

June 7, 2004 · NWS BOU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 7, 1:50 PM MST, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 1:50 PM MST, 6 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
250 PM MDT MON JUN 7 2004

.SHORT TERM...TDA-TNGT...MDLS MAINTAIN WK UPR RDG OVR CNTRL RCKYS
AS CLOSED UPR LO MOVES INTO NRN CA.  CDFNT TO N OF AREA THIS AFTN
WILL SLP INTO NERN PLAINS AFT MDNGT AND INTO METRO DEN ARND SNRS.
THIS WILL COOL AMS OVR PLAINS FM THIS AFTNS NR RECORD TEMPS.
CAPES ARE ZERO THIS EVE.  DEWPTS INCRS A LOT OVR PLAINS BHND CDFNT
BUT AMS WILL BE CAPPED THRU THE AFTN.  SO WILL LIMIT TSTMS TO
MTNS WHERE THERE WILL BE LITTLE CIN.  WILL GENERALLY COMPROMISE
AMONGST MOS TEMP GUIDANCE.

.LONG TERM DISCUSSION...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY A SSWLY FLOW
WILL BE OVER COLORADO WITH A CLOSED LOW LOCATED OVER NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA TUESDAY NIGHT.  INTERACTIVE SOUNDINGS SHOW ENOUGH CAPE ON
TUESDAY TO MAINTAIN ISOLD POPS THROUGH THE EVENING.  ON WEDNESDAY
...THE CLOSED LOW SHIFTS INTO NRN NEVADA WITH AN INCREASING SLY FLOW
OVR COLORADO.  AT THE SFC THE MODELS MAINTAIN A LOW LEVEL SELY FLOW
WITH A WEAK SURFACE TROF LOCATED ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND PALMER
DIVIDE. ENOUGH MSTR COUPLED WITH AFTN INSTBY FOR A CONTINUED SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. BEST CAPES AND POTENTIAL FOR STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN THE NORTHEAST PLAINS WHERE BETTER SHEAR
SHOULD BE.  AS FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...THE ETA AND GFS
BOTH LIFT THE SYSTEM OVER NEVADA TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF THE STATE.
AS IT DOES...THERE WILL BE FAVORABLE QG ASCENT OVER THE REGION WITH
GOOD MID LEVEL INSTABILITIES IN THE AFTERNOON AS A 60-70KT JET AT
300 MB ROUNDS THE BASE OF THE UPPER TROF. LOW LEVEL THETA-E RIDGE
WILL ALSO REMAIN OVER NORTHEASTERN COLORADO.  FOR THIS REASON I WENT
AHEAD AND ADDED A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE FCST FOR
THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  BY THE END OF THE WEEK...A FLAT
RIDGE WILL BE OVER THE WEST WITH A DRIER AND MORE ZONAL W-SWLY FLOW
OVR COLORADO.  THE LOW LEVEL MSTR IS PROGGED TO GET FLUSHED EAST
INTO KS SO WILL HOLD OFF ADDING ANY MORE POPS INTO THE FORECAST.
LOW LEVEL MSTR COULD SLIP BACK INTO THE NERN PLAINS OVR THE
WEEKEND...BUT FOR NOW WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST AND LET LATER
SHIFTS ADDRESS THAT ISSUE.

&&

.BOU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

GARD/COOPER

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 9:54 AM MST, 10 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1054 AM MDT MON JUN 07 2004

COZ030>051-081200-
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-
1054 AM MDT MON JUN 07 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL
COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AS THE AIR MASS
IS TOO DRY AND STABLE TO SUPPORT CONVECTION.  SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT
IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED DRIER AND WARMER AIR FROM THE
DESERT SOUTHWEST INTO THE AREA.  HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON
WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES ON THE PLAINS WITH MOSTLY 70S AND 80S IN
THE MOUNTAINS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A COLD FRONT WILL BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES TO THE FORECAST AREA
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE
EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS TUESDAY...THEN OVER ALL
THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY.  DRY CONDITIONS ARE THEN EXPECTED FOR
THE END OF THE WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

GARD/COOPER

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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, N Douglas County Below 6000 Feet / Denver / W Adams & Arapahoe Counties / E Broomfield County

When: June 7, 8:08 PM MST
Where: N Douglas County Below 6000 Feet / Denver / W Adams & Arapahoe Counties / E Broomfield County forecast zone
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 39.714, -104.707 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A dry microburst caused very strong winds to occur 3 miles southeast of Aurora. A trained spotter estimated a wind gusts to 70 mph (61 kts).

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Colorado in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in Colorado, June 2004

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: 5402344.