Tornado Warning 37, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

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SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1125 AM MDT TUE JUL 09 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES

ADAMS     ARAPAHOE     BOULDER   CLEAR CREEK   DENVER       DOUGLAS
ELBERT    GILPIN       GRAND     JACKSON       JEFFERSON    LARIMER
LINCOLN   LOGAN        MORGAN    PARK          PHILLIPS     SEDGWICK
SUMMIT    WASHINGTON   WELD

SYNOPSIS: EXTENSIVE CLOUDS COVER NORTHEAST COLORADO AND MOISTURE IS
QUITE DEEP THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW
PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD.

SKIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE MOVES
THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A SURFACE BOUNDARY
SEPARATING SOUTHEAST WINDS FROM LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS EXTENDS FROM
WESTERN ELBERT COUNTY NORTHWARD INTO WESTERN MORGAN AND NORTHEAST
WELD COUNTIES.  WITH THE HIGH MOISTURE LEVELS...SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTHEAST COLORADO WHERE SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL
CONTINUE PUMPING IN HIGH MOISTURE LEVELS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON.

WITH THE LACK OF SIGNIFICANT HEATING...THE ATMOSPHERE MAY NOT BECOME
UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO GENERATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT AN ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORM OR TWO COULD PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMTETER.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR THIS AFTERNOON...BUT
REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1138 AM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996

...THUNDERSTORM IN MORGAN COUNTY...

AT 1135 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN WEST CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY...
6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOG LANE VILLAGE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF FT
MORGAN.

THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.

PERSONS IN OR NEAR FORT MORGAN...LOG LANE VILLAGE...SNYDER...WELDONA
AND WIGGINS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINS AND CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING. RAIN AMOUNTS UP TO 1 INCH IN A 30 MINUTE PERIOD OF
TIME MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1245 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996

AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200
PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN COLORADO
     EASTERN ADAMS...EASTERN WELD...MORGAN...

AT 1240 PM....THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE ABOUT
5 MILES WEST OF FT MORGAN IN MORGAN COUNTY...IN NORTHEAST LARIMER
COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF KEOTA OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FT MORGAN...AND IN EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY NEAR SHAMROCK OR ABOUT 40
MILES EAST OF DENVER.

RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE SOAKED
THESE AREAS WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE BEFORE 200 PM.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE STORMS WITH THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AS WELL AS HIGHWAYS
AND COUNTY ROADS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BECOME NUMEROUS IN THESE COUNTIES...BUT THE
RAINFALL HAS LIGHTENED UP SLIGHTLY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS
AFTERNOON.

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COZ040-042-044-045-092000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
125 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996

AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200
PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN EASTERN ADAMS...EASTERN WELD AND MORGAN.

AT 120 PM....NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN
NORTHEAST WELD...MORGAN AND EASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING MODERATE TO BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINS AS THEY
MOVE SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. A SPOTTER 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF WIGGINS
REPORTED 2.10 INCHES OF RAIN AS OF 100 PM. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
THAT RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 2 1/2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THESE
AREAS.. BUT THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS AS ARE BEGINNING TO REDEVELOP
FURTHER WEST AND SOUTH OF THE WHERE THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED.

A BOUNDARY OF COOLER AIR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR
KEENSBURG TO BENNETT TO ELIZABETH. THIS BOUNDARY IS PUSHING WESTWARD
AND COULD INITIATE NEW THUN DERSTORMS JUST EAST OF DENVER BY 230 PM.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
200 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 1996

THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR PEOPLE IN EASTERN
ADAMS...EASTERN WELD AND MORGAN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED.

AT 155 PM....SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH MODERATE RAINFALL
CONTINUED OVER MORGAN AND NORTHEAST WELD COUNTIES...BUT THE THREAT
OF HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING. HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS
WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN ADAMS AND EASTERN ARAPAHOE COUNTIES...BUT
THE STORMS ARE DEVELOPING SLOWLY WESTWARD....SO NO ONE AREA IS
RECEIVING A LONG PERIOD OF HEAVY RAINFALL.

A BOUNDARY FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR PLATTEVILLE
TO JUST EAST OF THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SOUTHWARD INTO
EXTREME NORTHWEST ELBERT COUNTY. THIS BOUNDARY IS PUSHING SLOWLY
WESTWARD AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ON THIS BOUNDARY IN EASTERN
DENVER AND AURORA BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ALONG THIS BOUNDARY COULD DROP FROM 1/2
TO 1 INCH OF RAIN WITHIN A 30 MINUTE PERIOD.

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