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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 20, 2000Weld County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2000, 2:42 PM MDT for Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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 20, 2000, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2000, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Weld County, CO

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 20, 1:45 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 409 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -401 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KBOU 202043
TORDEN
COC123-202130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
242 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL WELD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 242 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER ROCKPORT...OR ABOUT 19
  MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...ROCKPORT.

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 4099 10485 4072 10485 4072 10432 4098 10432

KLEYLA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan, Weld	24 min
Jul 19, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan	45 min
Jul 19, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Washington	34 min
Jul 20, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	44 min
Jul 20, 3:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Weld	47 min
Jul 20, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	51 min
Jul 20, 4:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	40 min
Jul 20, 4:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Washington	52 min
Jul 20, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Washington	43 min
Jul 20, 4:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Morgan	51 min
Jul 20, 4:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	24 min
Jul 20, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams	51 min
Jul 20, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan	40 min
Jul 20, 5:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Washington	29 min
Jul 20, 5:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Morgan	42 min
Jul 20, 5:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Washington	46 min

Nearby

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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.