Tornado Warning 78, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Issued

Jul 31, 1996, 7:45 PM MDT (01:45 UTC)

Expired

Jul 31, 1996, 8:15 PM MDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Area

Whole counties

County Weld County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 010146
TORDEN
COC123-010215-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
745 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
     CENTRAL WELD

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     BARNESVILLE...EATON...EVANS...GALETON...GARDEN CITY...GILL
     ...GREELEY...KERSEY...LUCERNE AND PURCELL

AT 745 PM MDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF PURCELL
...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREELEY.

THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.  THIS STORM HAD ALSO PRODUCED 
1.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS.           

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 A(N INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.  USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.


BARJENBRUCH

LAT...LON 4031 10436 4027 10468 4061 10470 4064 10444

In the hours before

COZ046-047-312130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
318 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996

...LARGE HAIL IN HUGO...

AT 315PM HAIL TO JUST UNDER GOLFBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HUGO.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT IN EASTERN LINCOLN
COUNTY INCLUDING HUGO UNTIL 330 PM.  THE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST
EAST OF HUGO AND SLOWLY DRIFTING SOUTH.  RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD
TAKE COVER FROM THIS STORM.

RTG

&&

COZ038>050-310400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
455 PM MDT WED JUL 31 1996

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALMOST ALL OF EASTERN COLORADO
UNTIIL 9 PM MDT...

THE WATCH COVERS AREAS EAST OF INTERSTATE 25...INCLUDING THE
EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE DENVER METRO AREA...GREELEY...FORT
MORGAN...STERLING...AKRON...JULESBURG...LIMON...AND CASTLE ROCK.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO EARLY
THIS EVENING.  SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL WERE OCCURRING IN LINCOLN
COUNTY.  THESE SEVERE STORMS MAY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THE EVENING
PROGRESSES.

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES. d IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS
ISSUED...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.  GO TO YOUR BASEMENT AND GET UNDER A
STURDY PIECE OF FURNITURE.

BARJENBRUCH

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.