Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1999, 7:20 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 26, 1999, 7:20 PM MDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1999, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Elbert County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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.
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 3:19 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:19 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO 230 PM MDT SAT JUN 26 1999 SHORT TERM: THE THREAT OF SVR TSTMS OVR THE NERN PLAINS THIS EVENING STILL LOOKS TO BE THE MAIN CONCERN. LOW LVL MSTR HAS BEEN INCRG OVR THE NERN PLAINS AS PRVSLY FCST. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH SOME UPPER LVL DYNAMICS MOVING IN FM THE W MAY GET THINGS GOING ON OR AFT 00Z TDA. CAPE VALUES APPEAR TO BE IN THE 2000-3000 J/KG RANGE. BEST CHC WUD APPEAR TO BE IN THE 00-06Z TIME FRAME. PW VALUES NR THE KS/NEBRASKA BORDER ARND 1.2 INCHES THIS EVENING WITH ETA DVLPG MCS COMPLEX OVRNGT TNGT...SO HEAVY RAIN WL BE ANOTHER PROBLEM. SHEAR PROFILES SHOULD SUPPORT HAIL...PSBL TORNADOS...BUT MOST OF THIS SHUD BE EAST OF THE I-25 CORRIDOR. WITH BNDRY LEVEL RH OVR MUCH OF THE NERN PLAINS TNGT WL ALSO MENTION POSSIBILITY OF FOG. SFC AND H7 THETA-E RIDGE WL RMN OVR NERN CO ON SUNDAY...BUT DYNAMICS MAY NOT BE AS MUCH OF A FACTOR IN THE AFTN. FCST SOUNDINGS AGN SHOW CAPE VALUES IN THE 1500-2000 J/KG. ZONAL FLOW TO CONTINUE MON...BUT AVN INDICATES DRIER AT THE LOW LVLS. SO WL LOWER TSTM POTENTIAL AT THAT TIME. IN THE EXTENDED...W-NWLY FLOW WL CONTINUE WITH UPPER TROF CROSSING THE REGION BY MID-WEEK. THEREFORE WL CONTINUE WITH A CHC OF STORMS EACH DAY. COOPER .DEN...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 7:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 8:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 8:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 9:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 9:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 10:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips | 20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.