Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1995, 6:36 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1995, 6:36 PM MDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 3192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 160037 RRA
SVRDEN
COC095-160100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
636 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
WESTERN PHILLIPS
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
FAIRFIELD...HAXTUN...PAOLI AND WAGES
AT 636 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAXTUN ...OR ABOUT
33 MILES EAST OF STERLING.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY
SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAXY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
TA
LAT...LON 4055 10244 4056 10264 4073 10262 4073 10245What 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 15, 4:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
COZ031-035-038>041-042-043--044-045>047-072-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 438 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 431 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WHERE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM CASTLEROCK TO 15 MILES NORTH OF BRUSH. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
COZ031-035-036-038>041-042-043-044-045>049-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 512 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 510 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WHERE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF DIA TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT MORGAN WITH THE STRONGEST STORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN. GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
COZ031-035-036-038>041-042-043-044-045>049-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 512 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 510 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WHERE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF DIA TO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT MORGAN WITH THE STRONGEST STORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN. GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. TA
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:30 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
COZ048-160100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 632 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LOGAN COUNTY... AT 630 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW HAVEN OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STERLING. DANGEROUS LIGHTENING...SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF T HIS STORM. TA
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:31 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
COZ048-050-160100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 632 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LOGAN COUNTY... AT 630 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW HAVEN OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STERLING. DANGEROUS LIGHTENING...SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN THE P"ATH OF THIS STORM. TA
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:32 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
COZ048-050-160100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 632 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LOGAN COUNTY... AT 630 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW HAVEN OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STERLING. DANGEROUS LIGHTENING...SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. TA
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.