Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1998, 3:48 PM MDT for Adams County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 9, 1998, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1998, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Adams County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS1 KDEN 092149 RRA
TORDEN
COC001-092215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
348 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 415 PM MDT
* AT 335 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF
BENNETT...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN...MOVING
SLOWLY EAST AT 5 TO 10 MILES PER HOUR.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...LEADER
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.
LAT...LON 4000 10419 3983 10421 3982 10391 4000 10392
KLEYLAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Morgan | 85 min |
| Aug 8, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 7:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Morgan | 93 min |
| Aug 8, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 3:35 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:38 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 3:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 4:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 117 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan, Weld | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Washington | 86 min |
| Aug 9, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 5:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 99 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.