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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 17, 1995Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 1995, 3:05 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1995, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1995, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 172106
TORDEN
COC095-115-172130-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
305 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
     NORTHERN PHILLIPS AND SOUTHWESTERN SEDGWICK

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     FAIRFIELD...HAXTUN...MARKS BUTTE...PAOLI AND SIXTEEN-MILE
     CORNER

AT 305 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF MARKS
BUTTE ...OR ABOUT 39 MILES EAST OF STERLING.

THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF
HAXTUN. 

THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST ABOUT 10 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.


LAT...LON 4059 10213 4061 10263 4090 10263 4088 10228

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 3:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Phillips	31 min
Jul 17, 3:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan, Sedgwick	43 min
Jul 17, 4:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Phillips	30 min
Jul 17, 4:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Logan, Sedgwick	35 min
Jul 17, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan, Washington	43 min
Jul 17, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Larimer, Weld	39 min
Jul 17, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Weld	42 min
Jul 17, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	42 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.