Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 9:53 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1996, 9:53 PM MDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 7:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
COC035-038-039-043-260126- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 706 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN BOULDER...WELD AND LARIMER COUNTIES... AT 649 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AM AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST BOULDER...SOUTHWEST WELD AND SOUTHEAST LARIMER COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BERTHOUD...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF FORT COLLINS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS A POSSIBILITY WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST BOULDER...SOUTHWEST WELD AND SOUTHEAST LARIMER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE LOCATIONS OF LONGMONT...BERTHOUD...DACONO... FIRESTONE...FREDERICK...LYONS AND MEAD SHOULD BE ALERT OF THESE STORMS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS WHEN THE STORMS APPROACH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT TONIGHT. LESZCYNSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 7:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
COZ044-260145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 720 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...STRONG WINDS IN MORGAN COUNTY... AT 715PM STRONG WINDS WERE MOVING THROUGH MORGAN COUNTY. THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. THESE WINDS WERE CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE IN LOGAN COUNTY EARLIER AND HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. AT 7PM A BRIEF WIND GUST TO 58 MPH WAS REPORTED BY AN AUTOMATED SENSOR NEAR FOR T MORGAN...BUT 5 MINUTES LATER THE WIND SPEED HAD DECREASED. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUED UNTIL 9PM FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO. HOLZINGER
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 8:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
COC036-040-041-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 820 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH JEFFERSON COUNTY... AT 815 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUFFALO CREEK...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DENVER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE BURNED OUT AREAS AROUND BUFFALO CREEK. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AS WELL AS DOUGLAS COUNTY... INCLUDING THE LOCATIONS OF ACRES GREEN...ASPEN PARK...BEVERLY HILLS...BUFFALO CREEK...CHATFIELD RESERVOIR...CHEESMAN RESERVOIR AND PINE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY WHEN THE STORM4S APPROACH. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. LESZCYNSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 8:53 PM MDT, 1 hour before
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Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 37 min |
| Jul 25, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 37 min |
| Jul 25, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| Jul 25, 8:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.