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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 20, 2000Washington County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2000, 5:16 PM MDT for Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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, 5:16 PM MDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Washington County, CO

The radar

The Denver radar (KFTG), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KBOU 202259 COR
TORDEN
COC121-202345-

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

...CORRECTED MOVEMENT OF STORM...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 459 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER BURDETT...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES NORTHEAST OF AKRON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...LONE STAR
AND BURDETT.

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.

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.

LAT...LON 4042 10312 4019 10313 4019 10281 4043 10281

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, 2:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Weld	48 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, 5:18 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.