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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 15, 1998Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1998, 3:54 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 15, 1998, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1998, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Elbert County, CO

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 15, 11:15 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 11:15 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	26 min
Jul 15, 3:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe	25 min
Jul 15, 3:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	32 min
Jul 15, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.