Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2000, 9:56 PM MDT for Phillips County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 5, 2000, 9:56 PM MDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Phillips County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
959 WFUS55 KBOU 060359 TORDEN COC095-060430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 956 PM MDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1030 PM MDT * AT 956 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAGES... OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLYOKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...WAGES AND PAOLI. THE STORM APPEARS TO BE WEAKENING...BUT TORNADOES...HAIL UP TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE. 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4065 10256 4043 10251 4043 10219 4064 10241 GIMMESTAD &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 9:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 46 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.