Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 79, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 31, 1996, 7:51 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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
- Jul 31, 1996, 7:51 PM MDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1996, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDEN 010153
TORDEN
COC095-010215-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
751 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
PHILLIPS
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
AMHERST...HOLYOKE...PAOLI...PLEASANT VALLEY AND WAGES
AT 743 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES NORTH OF
HAXTUN...OR ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF STERLING. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THIS LOCATION.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
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 STAYN AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
BARJENBRUCH
LAT...LON 4048 10208 4053 10248 4072 10252 4073 10212What 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, Jul 31, 3:20 PM MDT, 4 hours 31 minutes 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 &&
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 4:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 4 hr |
| Jul 31, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 7:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 8:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 8:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 9:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 9:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 10:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jul 31, 10:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Weld | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 10:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 11:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 9 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 4:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 21 min |
| Aug 1, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 5:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 34 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.