Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1995, 5:17 PM MDT for Adams County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 032317
TORDEN
COC001-040000-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
517PM MDT SAT JUN 03 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
CENTRAL ADAMS
AT 515 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 47 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
GREELEY.
AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED 2 TORNADOES ABOUT 5 TO 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF STRASSBURG.
THE STORM WAS 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 REPOR&T TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER.
LESZCYNSKI
LAT...LON 3982 10415 3980 10431 3995 10431 3994 10412The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 2:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 3:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 3:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 22 min |
| Jun 3, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 35 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.