Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 5:20 PM MDT for Adams County, Morgan County, Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Washington County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 022320 RRA
SVRDEN
COC001-087-121-030000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
520 PM MDT SUN JUL 02 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
NORTHEASTERN ADAMS...SOUTHERN MORGAN AND WEST CENTRAL
WASHINGTON
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
ADENA...ADENA SCHOOL...GARY...TWELVE-MILE CORNER AND
WOODROW
AT 519 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF ADENA...OR ABOUT 54
MILES NORTH OF LIMON.
THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 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 RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL
1000PM MDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
HOLZINGER
LAT...LON 3981 10329 3994 10391 4014 10399 4013 10326What 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 2, 1:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
COZ042-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 150 PM MDT SUN JUL 02 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN WELD COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OUT OF WYOMING INTO NORTHERN WELD COUNTY. AT 145 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES WEST OF GROVER IN NORTHERN WELD COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. AN EARLIER STORM DROPPED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR PINE BLUFFS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST WYOMING. SZOKE
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 1:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
COZ042-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 150 PM MDT SUN JUL 02 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN WELD COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OUT OF WYOMING INTO NORTHERN WELD COUNTY. AT 145 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES WEST OF GROVER IN NORTHERN WELD COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. AN EARLIER STORM DROPPED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR PINE BLUFFS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST WYOMING. SZOKE
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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.