Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1993, 6:54 PM MDT for Adams County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1993, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1993, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, Jul 9, 4:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
COZ012>013-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 455 PM MDT FRI JUL 09 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY... AT 455 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANTON ...OR ABOUT 58 MILES SOUTH OF STERLING. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU LIVE NEAR ANTON...ARICKAREE SCHOOL...COPE...ELBA AND THURMAN MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND TORNADOS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 1000 PM MDT. HOLMES
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
COZ012>013-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 455 PM MDT FRI JUL 09 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY... AT 455 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANTON ...OR ABOUT 58 MILES SOUTH OF STERLING. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU LIVE NEAR ANTON...ARICKAREE SCHOOL...COPE...ELBA AND THURMAN MOVE INDOORS2 UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND TORNADOS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 1000 PM MDT. HOLMES
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:40 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
COZ012-100115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 640 PM MDT FRI JUL 09 1993 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY... AT 640 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM WOODROW TO STRASBURG. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER LEADER ...OR ABOUT 46 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU LIVE NEAR LEADER AND SHAMROCK BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND MOVE INDOORS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 1000 PM MDT. HOLMES
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:42 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ012-100115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 640 PM MDT FRI JUL 09 1993 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY... AT 640 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM WOODROW TO STRASBURG. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER LEADER ...OR ABOUT 46 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU LIVE NEAR LEADER AND SHAMROCK BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND MOVE INDOORS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 1000 PM MDT. HOLMES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Washington | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 8:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 8:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 9:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.