Tornado Warning 22, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
130 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 1988

...TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO TIL 800 PM THIS EVENING...

RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE FOOTHILLS
SOUTHWEST OF DENVER NORTH TO THE WYOMING BORDER.  THUNDERSTORMS WERE
BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY AND EASTERN WELD COUNTY
45 TO 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STERLING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER THE EASTERN
PLAINS OF COLORADO LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS
ARE LIKELY WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS.

TWO TO THREE INCHES OF HAIL ON THE GROUND WITH THE HAIL SIZE UP TO 3/4
OF AND INCH AND ABOUT ONE INCH OF RAIN WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN
IDAHO SPRINGS ABOUT 30 MILES TO THE WEST OF DENVER.
IF THREATENING WEATHER IS OBSERVED MOVE QUICKLY TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
IoF NEAR A STREAM AND WATERS BEGIN TO RISE RAPIDLY MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGH
GROUND.

BALINT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
445 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 1988

      ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED NORTH OF PALMER DIVIDE...

THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED NORTH OF THE PALMER DIVIDE...THIS
INCLUDES THE DENVER METRO AREA. THE WATCH IS STILL IN EFFECT FROM THE
PALMER DIVIDE SOUTH TO THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST COLORADO
TONIGHT. AT 445 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATEDa OVER NORTHERN WELD
COUNTY  BETWEEN GREELEY AND NUNN. VERY SLOW MOVEMENT WITH THESE STORMS
WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES IN LESS THAN AN
HOUR LIKELY.

DUNN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
520 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 1988

      ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF COLORADO...

THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF COLORADO. A
FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS EVENING THROUGHOUT EASTERN
COLORADO BUT IT NO LONGER APPEARS THAT SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR.

THE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE AS
WELL AS SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE SKIES WILL BEGIN CLEARING LATER
TONIGHT.

DUNN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
745 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 1988

  ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH AURORA...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SOUTH THROUGH AURORA WITH HEAVY RAIN AND
SMALL HAIL. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF MARBLE SIZED HAIL. RADAR
INDICATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1/2 AND 1 INCH IN LESS THAN AN HOUR
WITH THIS STORM. SOME PARTS OF AURORA RECEIVED ABOUT AN INCH OF RAIN
EARLIER THIS EVENING FROM A PREVIOUS STORM AND THE ADDITION OF MORE
WATER WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME INTERSECTIONS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AND BE
PREPARED FOR LOCAL STREET FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER IF YOU
CANNOT DETERMaINE THE DEPTH.

DUNN