Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1997, 6:28 PM MDT for Sedgwick County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1997, 6:28 PM MDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1997, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sedgwick County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
491
WFUS1 KDEN 210029 RRA
TORDEN
COC115-210115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
628 PM MDT FRI JUN 20 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
WESTERN AND CENTRAL SEDGWICK
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
MARKS BUTTE...OVID AND SEDGWICK
AT 624 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF SEDGWICK...OR ABOUT 14
MILES SOUTHWEST OF JULESBURG. IN ADDITION THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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.
LAT...LON 4077 10228 4077 10246 4077 10262 4095 10262
4099 10244 4098 10229
KLEYLAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 8:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 32 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.