Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 93, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1996, 3:53 PM MDT for Adams County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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
- Aug 9, 1996, 3:53 PM MDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1996, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 092156 COR
TORDEN
COC001-092230-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRRECTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
353 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
CENTRAL ADAMS
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
BENNETT AND MANILA VILLAGE
AT 350 PM MDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A SMALL TORNADO JUST
SOUTHEAST OF DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS
REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AT 352 PM 3 MILES EAST OF FRONT RANGE
AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF DENVER.
THESE TORNADOES WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 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 STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
BARJENBRUCH
LAT...LON 3990 10414 3974 10422 3974 10454 3999 10450What 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, Aug 9, 11:14 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
COZ030-032>050-100600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1010 AM MDT FRI AUG 9 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: PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THIS WILL HELP TO SPARK THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS BY THE NOON HOUR...AND THEN ACROSS THE PLAINS AFTER 2 PM. A SURFACE BOUNDARY FROM THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE DENVER METRO AREA NORTHWARD TO CHEYENNE MAY HELP TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO THE EAST OF THAT BOUNDARY WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH ENERGY FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LONG-LIVED SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT LIKELY TODAY GIVENR ONLY A WEAK WIND SHEAR PROFILE IN THE ATMOSPHERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM CHEYENNE TO DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. BARJENBRUCH
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
COZ030-032>050-100600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 240 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 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: A WELL DEVELOPED SURFACE BOUNDARY FROM KIOWA TO JUST EAST OF DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND THEN TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF CHEYENNE WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM. A FEW OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE WITH A BRIEF PERIOD OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED WEAK TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE WHERE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTERACT WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING IN AREAS FARTHER EAST INCLUDING FORT MORGAN...LIMON...STERLING...AND AKRON. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE FORT COLLINS TO DENVER CORRIDOR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY FROM CHEYENNE TO DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO KIOWA. BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 19 min |
| Aug 9, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 40 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.