Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1997, 7:55 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1997, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1997, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elbert County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 7:55 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Kutch, CO |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614
WFUS1 KDEN 290157 RRA
TORDEN
COC039-290230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
755 PM MDT MON JUL 28 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
SOUTHEASTERN ELBERT
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
KUTCH
AT 755 PM MDT...THE ELBERT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO ON
COUNTY ROAD 197 NEAR KUTCH. THIS WAS ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF
LIMON.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 5 TO 10 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 3890 10374 3888 10398 3901 10390 3903 10378The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:41 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Adams | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Weld | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 9:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Larimer | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 40 min |
| Jul 29, 4:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Elbert | 112 min |
| Jul 29, 5:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Elbert | 113 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.