Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 104, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT for Adams County, Arapahoe County, Denver County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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 29, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Denver County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 702 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 300206 COR
TORDEN
COC001-005-031-300230-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
MOVEMENT OF STORM.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
800 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
ARAPAHOE...EASTERN DENVER AND SOUTHERN ADAMS
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
AURORA...CENTRAL CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE...SOUTHEASTERN DENVER... ...
EAST CENTRAL ENGLEWOOD...ARAPAHOE PARK...BENNETT...BYERS...
COUNTRY GARDENS... DEER TRAIL...GREENWOOD VILLAGE...MANILA
VILLAGE...STRASBURG AND WATKINS
AT 750 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AURORA...OR
ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF DENVER.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR.
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.
LAT...LON 3957 10392 3958 10495 3974 10494 3992| 10417
3975 10399
KLEYLAWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 29, 2:34 PM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
COZ036-041-292050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 230 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTING SMALL HAIL FALLING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST DOUGLAS COUNTY... AT 225 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF WESTCREEK...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST DOUGLAS COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING SMALL HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY BY 245 PM MDT. PERSONS IN OR NEAR DECKERS...DEVIL'S HEAD...AND LARKSPUR SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEAZTHER AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF BAD WEATHER APPROACHES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 800 PM MDT. BAKER
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:13 PM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
COZ041-292130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 310 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN DETECTED ON RADAR FROM A THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN ELBERT COUNTY... AT 305 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF KIOWA...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DENVER. DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. RADAR HAS ALSO INDICATED SOME STRENGTHENING OF THIS STORM IN THE PAST 10 MINUTES...A THEREFORE MAY BECOME SEVERE AS IT MOVES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN OR NEAR ELIZABETH AND KIOWA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF BAD WEATHER APPROACHES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 800 PM MDT. BAKER...WSFO DENVER
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
COZ038-040-042>045-049-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 345 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT HOUR... THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS WELD...MORGAN...EASTERN ADAMS AND EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTIES AS OF 340 PM MDT. STORMS WERE FORMING ALONG A WELL DEFINED WIND CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY EXTENDING NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. AT 340 PM MDT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM INDICATED ON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARDIN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF GREELEY. MOVEMENT OF STORMS IN WELD AND MORGAN COUNTIES WAS TO THE WEST AT 20 MPH...AND THOSE IN MORGAN...ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF BAD WEATHER APPROACHES. STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH OR NO WARNING. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 800 PM MDT. BAKER...WSFO DENVER
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 4:41 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
COZ038-039-042>045-048-049-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 438 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 ...THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHING NORTHEAST COLORADO FROM SOUTHEAST WYOMING... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST WYOMING WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE WHICH IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING. AS THIS DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH NORTHEAST COLORADO BETWEEN 5 AND 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING...NEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP... SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST COLORADO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS EVENING AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH OR NO WARNING. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECdT FOR MOST OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 800 PM MDT. BAKER...WSFO DENVER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 6:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 25 min |
| Aug 29, 6:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 7:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 7:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 50 min |
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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.