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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 17, 1995Phillips County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 1995, 3:29 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1995, 3:29 PM MDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1995, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Phillips County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 172132
TORDEN
COC095-172200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
     PHILLIPS

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     FAIRFIELD...HOLYOKE...PAOLI AND WAGES

AT 329 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF FAIRFIELD
...OR ABOUT 39 MILES EAST OF STERLING.

THE PHILLIPS COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF HOLYOKE AT 326 PM MDT.

THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST ABOUT 10 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN CENTRAL PHILLIPS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF PAOLI...
WAGES...FAIRFIELD OR HOLYOKE GO TO A STURDY REINFORCED BUILDING
IMMEDIATELY.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM
MDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 3:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Phillips, Sedgwick	25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.