Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 17, 1992, 4:38 PM MDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1992, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1992, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, CO, Jefferson County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 172238
TORDEN
COC119-035-059-172315-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
438 PM MDT MON AUG 17 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL COLORADO
NORTHERN TELLER
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN
JEFFERSON
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
WESTCREEK
AT 438 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF WESTCREEK ...OR ABOUT 37
MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS.
THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET
UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN
THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH
YOUR HANDS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
MCQUEEN
LAT...LON 3901 10510 3906 10531 3920 10535 3919 10520What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Aug 17, 11:50 AM MDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
COZ002-004-011-012-013-180000- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1150 AM MDT MON AUG 17 1992 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS DENVER JACKSON LOGAN SEDGWICK YUMA ARAPAHOE DOUGLAS JEFFERSON MORGAN SUMMIT BOULDER GILPIN LARIMER PARK WASHINGTON CLEAR CREEK GRAND LAKE PHILLIPS WELD IT WILL BE SHOWERY ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO TODAY...WITH SOME THUNDER BUT NOTHING TOO INTENSE. MOISTURE HAS INCREASED ENOUGH BEHIND A COLD FRONT SO THAT THERE WILL ALSO BE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN FROM SOME OF THE SHOWERS. STORM MOVEMENT TO THE ^SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH SHOULD BE FAST ENOUGH TO AVOID SERIOUS WATER PROBLEMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. MCQUEEN
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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.