Tornado Warning 30, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Issued

Aug 9, 1998, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)

Expired

Aug 9, 1998, 5:15 PM MDT

In force

32 min

Issued by

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Adams County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Weld County, CO

The Denver radar (KFTG), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KDEN 092248 COR
TORDEN
COC001-087-123-092315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
443 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 1998

...CORRECTED SPPED OF MOVEMENT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
     CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
     SOUTHWESTERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
     SOUTH CENTRAL WELD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 435 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF         
  HOYT...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN...MOVING SLOWLY  
  NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. 

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...HOYT

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 4005 10443 3981 10437 3993 10397 4018 10407

KLEYLA

Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

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.