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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 22, 1995Douglas County, Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1995, 4:50 PM MDT for Douglas County, Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 1995, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, CO, Elbert County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 222250
TORDEN
COC039-035-222315-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
450 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
     WESTERN ELBERT

IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
     SOUTHERN DOUGLAS

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     DEVIL'S HEAD...FRANKTOWN...EBERT...LARKSPUR AND PERRY PARK

AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 5 MILES 
NORTHEAST OF MONUMENT IN EXTREME SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY.  

THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO AS WELL AS NUMEROUS FUNNELS WAS
MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MILES.  

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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.

BAKER
LAT...LON 3916 10462 3914 10510 3931 10512 3941 10462

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	33 min
Jun 21, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	26 min
Jun 22, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas, Elbert	35 min
Jun 22, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	50 min
Jun 22, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	53 min
Jun 22, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Douglas	36 min
Jun 22, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Denver	36 min
Jun 22, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Sedgwick	36 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.