Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 6:35 PM MDT for Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 6:35 PM MDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 230037 RRA
SVRDEN
COC115-230115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
635 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
EASTERN SEDGWICK
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
JULESBURG
AT 635 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF JULESBURG ...OR ABOUT 60
MILES EAST OF STERLING.
THE STORM WAS BUILDING BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
BASEBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN JULESBURG AT 611PM.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
AND EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 1100PM MDT.
LAT...LON 4079 10208 4080 10230 4100 10235 4098 10207
RTGWhat 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 22, 3:59 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
COZ034>035-038>039-042>043-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 359 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 AT 355 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE WYOMING/COLORADO STATE LINE 7 MILES NORTH OF ROCKPORT...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT COLLINS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY...AND EASTERN LARIMER COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WELD AND ADAMS COUNTIES THROUGH 530PM...AND EASTWARD AFTER 530PM. SOME STORMS THIS EVENING WILL BECOME SEVERE. RTG LAT...LON 3994 10512 3998 10567 4099 10495 4101 10461
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
COZ034>035-038>039-042>043-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 359 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 AT 355 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE WYOMING/COLORADO STATE LINE 7 MILES NORTH OF ROCKPORT...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT COLLINS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY...AND EASTERN LARIMER COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WELD AND ADAMS COUNTIES THROUGH 530PM...AND EASTWARD AFTER 530PM. SOME STORMS THIS EVENING WILL BECOME SEVERE. RTG LAT...LON 3994 10512 3998 10567 4099 10495 4101 10461
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Washington | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 28 min |
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.