Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1993, 5:33 PM MDT for Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1993, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1993, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 222336
TORDEN
COC115-230000-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
533 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
SEDGWICK
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
JULESBURG...MARKS BUTTE...OVID...SEDGWICK AND SIXTEEN-MILE
CORNER
AT 533 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF JULESBURG ...OR ABOUT 54
MILES EAST OF STERLING.
THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF JULESBURG AND
A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER JULESBURG.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 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.
DULONG
LAT...LON 4076 10206 4076 10263 4100 10263 409:9 10206What 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, Jun 22, 12:25 PM MDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
COZ002-004-011-012-013-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1225 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1993 UPDATED TO INCREASE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ALONG FRONT RANGE 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 THE AIRMASS HAS DRIED OUT NEAR THE FOOTHILLS...BUT THE DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN HIGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. A DRY LINE MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THESE TWO AIR MASSES... AND AT NOON IT EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHEAST WELD...WESTERN MORGAN TO EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. TO THE WEST OF THE DRY LINE THERE WILL BE A FEW GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. THE DRY LINE WILL CONTINUE SLIDING SLOWLY EAST THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE...WITH SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF FORT MORGAN AFTER 3PM. SPOTTERS MAY BE ACTIVATED FOR THE NORTHEAST PLAINS AND NORTHEAST BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. RTG
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:28 PM MDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
COZ002-004-011-012-013-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1225 PM MDT TUE JUN 22 1993 UPDATED TO INCREASE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ALONG FRONT RANGE 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 THE AIRMASS HAS DRIED OUT NEAR THE FOOTHILLS...BUT THE DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN HIGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. A DRY LINE MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THESE TWO AIR MASSES... AND AT NOON IT EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHEAST WELD...WESTERN MORGAN TO EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. TO THE WEST OF THE DRY LINE THERE WILL BE A FEW GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. THE DRY LINE WILL CONTINUE SLIDING SLOWLY EAST THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE...WITH SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF FORT MORGAN AFTER 3PM. SPOTTERS MAY BE ACTIVATED FOR THE NORTHEAST PLAINS AND NORTHEAST BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. RTG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington, Yuma | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Yuma | 53 min |
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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.