Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1996, 3:25 PM MDT for Adams County, Denver County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1996, 3:25 PM MDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1996, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, CO, Denver County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:25 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Denver Intl Airport, CO | |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Denver Intl Airport, CO | |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Denver Intl Airport, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 092123
TORDEN
COC001-031-092200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
325 PM MDT TUE JUL 09 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
WESTERN CENTRAL ADAMS AND NORTHEASTERN DENVER
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
DENVER INTL AIRPORT...MANILA VILLAGE AND WATKINS
AT 325 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND HAM RADIO SPOTTERS
INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR AND EAST
OF THE DENVER INTL AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENVER.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
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 3975 10448 3976 10472 3992 10473 3994 10456
IMYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 2:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 2:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 2:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 3:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 3:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 4:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.