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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 7, 1995Morgan County, Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1995, 7:56 PM MDT for Morgan County, Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1995, 7:56 PM MDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1995, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Morgan County, CO, Weld County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 080156
TORDEN
COC087-123-080245-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
756 PM MDT WED JUN 07 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
     NORTHWESTERN MORGAN AND CENTRAL WELD

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     BRIGGSDALE...GOODRICH...JACKSON RESERVOIR...KEOTA AND
     WELDONA

AT 753 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW TWO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES.  ONE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NEAR
RIVERSIDE RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF GREELEY.  ANOTHER
POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEENESBURG NEAR KLUG LAKE.  

BOTH OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 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.

KLEYLA

LAT...LON 4034 10383 4033 10433 4069 10437 4069 10379

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Weld	45 min
Jun 7, 7:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Weld	45 min
Jun 7, 8:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	42 min
Jun 7, 9:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert, Lincoln	45 min
Jun 7, 9:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Washington	45 min
Jun 7, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Morgan, Washington	45 min
Jun 7, 10:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan, Washington	32 min
Jun 7, 10:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Washington	43 min
Jun 7, 11:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOU	Morgan	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:59 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOU	Logan, Weld	3 hr

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.