Tornado Warning 82, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Issued

Jul 31, 1996, 9:16 PM MDT (03:16 UTC)

Expired

Jul 31, 1996, 10:00 PM MDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Area

Whole counties

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO

The Denver radar (KFTG), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 010319
TORDEN
COC001-005-010400-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
     EASTERN ARAPAHOE AND EASTERN ADAMS

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     BYERS...DEER TRAIL AND LEADER

AT 915 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEADER...OR
ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREELEY.

THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH/SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.  THE 
STORM HAD ALSO PRODUCED WINDS UP TO 80 MPH IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST WELD 
COUNTY.  

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.

BARJENBRUCH



LAT...LON 3959 10378 3958 10421 3998 10437 3999 10396

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.