Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1994, 3:22 PM MDT for Larimer County, Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1994, 3:22 PM MDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1994, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Larimer County, CO, Weld County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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, Jul 16, 11:15 AM MDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
COZ015-030>050-067-071-072-170600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1115 AM MDT SAT JUL 16 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS ARAPAHOE BOULDER CLEAR CREEK DENVER DOUGLAS ELBERT EL PASO GILPIN GRAND JACKSON JEFFERSON LAKE LARIMER LINCOLN LOGAN MORGAN PARK PHILLIPS SEDGWICK SUMMIT TELLER WASHINGTON WELD CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY VERSUS FRIDAY. A WEAK FRONT HAS PUSHED INTO THE NORTHEAST PLAINS... SHIFTING WINDS TO AN EASTERLY DIRECTION AND KEEPING MOISTURE LEVELS FAIRLY HIGH. A LINE OF STORMS HAD MOVED THROUGH THE AREA LATE YESTERDAY MORNING WHICH STABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE THROUGH A GOOD PART OF THE AFTERNOON ...EXCEPT FOR OVER LARIMER COUNTY. THIS SHOULD NOT BE THE CASE TODAY.. SO THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME SCATTERED OVER MORE OF THE AREA A LITTLE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY FROM THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE TOWARDS THE EASTERN BORDER AREAS. LARGE HAIL AND EVEN ISOLATED TORNADOES COULD OCCUR. FOR DENVER...THERE WILL ONLY BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. SPOTTERS COULD BE NEEDED IN NORTHEAST COLORADO. DULONG
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 11:16 AM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
COZ015-030>050-067-071-072-170600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1115 AM MDT SAT JUL 16 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS ARAPAHOE BOULDER CLEAR CREEK DENVER DOUGLAS ELBERT EL PASO GILPIN GRAND JACKSON JEFFERSON LAKE LARIMER LINCOLN LOGAN MORGAN PARK PHILLIPS SEDGWICK SUMMIT TELLER WASHINGTON WELD CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY VERSUS FRIDAY. A WEAK FRONT HAS PUSHED INTO THE NORTHEAST PLAINS... SHIFTING WINDS TO AN EASTERLY DIRECTION AND KEEPING MOISTURE LEVELS FAIRLY HIGH. A LINE OF STORMS HAD MOVED THROUGH THE AREA LATE YESTERDAY MORNING WHICH STABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE THROUGH A GOOD PART OF THE AFTERNOON ...EXCEPT FOR OVER LARIMER COUNTY. THIS SHOULD NOT BE THE CASE TODAY.. SO THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME SCATTERED OVER MORE OF THE AREA A LITTLE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY FROM THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE TOWARDS THE EASTERN BORDER AREAS. LARGE HAIL AND ELVEN ISOLATED TORNADOES COULD OCCUR. FOR DENVER...THERE WILL ONLY BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. SPOTTERS COULD BE NEEDED IN NORTHEAST COLORADO. DULONG
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
COZ041-162000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 125 PM MDT SAT JUL 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DOUGLAS COUNTY... AT 120 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF CASTLE ROCK MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST DOUGLAS COUNTY BY 200 PM MDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY IN OR NEAR THE TOWNS OF LARKSPUR...CASTLE ROCK AND FRANKTOWN...BE READY FOR WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MPH...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OR HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DULONG
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:10 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ038-042-162215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 310 PM MDT SAT JUL 16 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HEADING TOWARDS LARIMER AND WELD COUNTIES... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST ACROSS THE BORDER IN WYOMING WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST LARIMER AND NORTHWEST WELD COUNTIES OF COLORADO BY 330 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY IN OR NEAR THE COLORADO TOWNS OF VIRGINIA DALE...LIVERMORE...NORFOLK...WARREN... WELLINGTON OR NUNN...BE READY TO TAKE COVER FROM THREATENING WEATHER FROM NOW THROUGH 415 PM. A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED FOR THIS STORM SHORTLY. DULONG
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:12 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
COZ038-042-162215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 310 PM MDT SAT JUL 16 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HEADING TOWARDS LARIMER AND WELD COUNTIES... A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST ACROSS THE BORDER IN WYOMING WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST LARIMER AND NORTHWEST WELD COUNTIES OF COLORADO BY 330 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY IN OR NEAR THE COLORADO TOWNS OF VIRGINIA DALE...LIVERMORE...NORFOLK...WARREN... WELLINGTON OR NUNN...BE READY TO TAKE COVER FROM THREATENING WEATHER FROM NOW THROUGH 415 PM. A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED FOR THIS STORM SHORTLY. DULONG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 39 min |
| Jul 16, 4:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 26 min |
| Jul 16, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 5:52 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.