Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 6:43 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 14, 1996, 6:43 PM MDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 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 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 150043
SVRDEN
COC073-150130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
643 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
SOUTHERN LINCOLN
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
BOYERO
AT 641 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF BOYERO...OR ABOUT 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LIMON.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR.
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60
MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN DENVER.
LAT...LON 3901 10318 3878 10328 3898 10369 3916 10335What 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, Aug 14, 2:02 PM MDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
COZ033-035-038-039-142045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO 202 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHCENTRAL LARIMER COUNTY... AT 201 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF GLEN HAVEN...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF FORT COLLINS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN OR NEAR WESTERN FORT COLLINS...BELLVUE...BUCKHORN MOUNTAIN...DRAKE...ESTES PARK...GLEN HAVEN...LOVELAND...LYONS AND MASONVILLE SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF BAD WEATHER APPROACHES. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL ...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. RJK
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
COZ033-035-038-142140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO 305 PM MDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST LARIMER COUNTY... AT 303 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF VIRGINIA DALE...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT COLLINS MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN OR NEAR LIVERMORE...MISHOWAKA...POUDRE PARK...TEDS PLACE...VIRGINIA DALE AND WELLINGTON SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF BAD WEATHER APPROACHES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH. RJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 53 min |
| Aug 15, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 40 min |
| Aug 15, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 47 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.