Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1995, 8:33 PM MDT for Morgan County, Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 8:33 PM MDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1995, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 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 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 080236
TORDEN
COC087-123-080315-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
833 PM MDT WED JUN 07 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
NORTHERN MORGAN AND EAST CENTRAL WELD
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
ANTELOPE SPRINGS...JACKSON RESERVOIR...NEW RAYMER AND
STONEHAM
AT 833 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON
RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 36 MILES EAST OF GREELEY.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 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 4046 10359 4037 10411 4063 10414 4071 10359The 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, 7:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 49 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.