Tornado Warning 86, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Issued

Aug 1, 1996, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)

Expired

Aug 1, 1996, 5:00 PM MDT

In force

21 min

Issued by

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Area

Whole counties

County Washington County, CO

The Denver radar (KFTG), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 012241
TORDEN
COC121-012300-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
439 PM MDT THU AUG 1 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
     NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     OTIS

AT 435 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR OTIS...OR ABOUT 37 MILES 
SOUTHEAST OF STERLING.

AT 435 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WEST OF OTIS...OR ABOUT 37 
MILES SOUTHEAST OF STERLING.

THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MILES PER HOUR.

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.

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.

GIMMESTAD

LAT...LON 4025 10297 4027 10285 4024 10281 4000 10283
          4002 10300
&

In the hours before

COZ030-032>050-020600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO
1145 AM MDT THU AUG 1 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:  SEVERAL FACTORS FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
ARE IN PLACE AGAIN TODAY.  LIKE YESTERDAY...THERE IS PLENTIFUL MOISTURE
OVER THE PLAINS...WITH SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR NEAR THE FOOTHILLS.  UPSLOPE
WINDS WILL BE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WILL BE WEAKER THAN
YESTERDAY.  WARM AIR ALOFT WILL DELAY THE ONSET OF STORMS UNTIL LATE
AFTERNOON AND LIMIT THEIR NUMBER...BUT WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS THAT DO
DEVELOP FROM GREELEY AND BYERS EAST WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE.  THE WIN*D
PROFILE IS NOT AS FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TODAY...BUT THERE IS ENOUGH
SHEAR THAT AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING...MAINLY
FROM GREELEY AND LIMON EAST.

GIMMESTAD

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.