Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1991, 8:50 PM MDT for Adams County, Denver County, Jefferson County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1991, 8:50 PM MDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1991, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, CO, Denver County, CO, Jefferson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:26 PM MDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
COZ011-012-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 425 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST BOULDER...SOUTHEAST LARIMER AND NORTHWEST WELD COUNTIES... AT 421 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THREE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE NORTH OF DENVER. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NUNN IN WELD. THE SECOND STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF FORT COLLINS IN LARIMER COUNTY. THE THIRD STORM WAS 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONGMONT IN NORTHEAST BOULDER COUNTY. ALL THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND LOW-LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL THIS AREA UNTIL 800 PM MDT. ALSO...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BOULDER AND LARIMER COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM MDT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATIONS AS FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. WOLF
Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
715 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1991
ADDITIONAL STORM REPORT FOR THURSDAY JUNE 20 1991
TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT
1448 LARIMER/BELLVUE MARBLE SIZE HAIL FROM SPOTTER
1455 LARIMER/LOVELAND MESONET WIND GUST TO 50KTS
1645 ADAMS/BRIGHTON MESONET WIND GUST TO 40KTS
2055 ADAMS/BENNETT PUBLIC REPORT POSSIBLE FUNNEL
EAST OF BENNETT, UNCONFIRMED
2006 ADAMS/5NE BENNETT PEA SIZE HAIL FROM SPOTTER
2018 PHILLIPS/20SW HOLYOKE MARBLE SIZE HAIL FROM SPOTTER
2042 YUMA/WAUNITA 3/4" HAIL FROM SPOTTER
2224 YUMA/YUMA PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
FROM STERLING PATROL
SIMMONSLocal storm report, Jun 21, 7:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
716 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1991
ADDITIONAL STORM REPORT FOR THURSDAY JUNE 20 1991
TIME (MDT) COUNTY/LOCATION EVENT
2224 YUMA/YUMA PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
FROM STERLING PATROL
2329 SEDGWICK/SEDGEWICK PEA SIZE HAIL AND STREET FLOODING
BY SHERIFF
SIMMONS
3Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:15 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
COZ011-012-013-014-220230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 815 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST COLORADO EXPIRED AT 800 PM MDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH HAS BEEN IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND NORTHEAST COLORADO HAS EXPIRED. WOLF
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:40 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
COZ011-012-220330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 840 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1991 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 830PM PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND WAS SPREADING INTO GOLDEN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY...15 MILES WEST OF DENVER. A THUNDERSTORM IN THE AREA WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD CROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE DENVER METRO DISTRICT BY 930PM. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN WESTERN ADAMS COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENVER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD REACH KEENSBURG IN WELD COUNTY BY 930PM. A THIRD THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHERN WELD COUNTY BETWEEN PLATTEVILLE AND KEENSBURG...OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENVER...AND WAS ALSO MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A FEW OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST NORTHWEST OF THIS STORM NEAR MILLIKEN AND SHOULD REACH GREELEY BY 930PM. ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING. IF THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. HOLZINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Jefferson | 21 min |
| Jun 21, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 10:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Denver, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 11:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Denver | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 11:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 28 min |
| Jun 22, 1:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Boulder, Weld | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 2:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Weld | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.