Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 40, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2000, 7:18 PM MDT for Washington County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 min. 4 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2000, 7:18 PM MDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 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), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:30 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Anton, CO | |
| Jul 21, 7:30 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Anton, CO | |
| Jul 21, 7:50 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Anton, CO | |
| Jul 21, 7:50 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Anton, CO |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 941 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
048 WFUS55 KBOU 220119 TORDEN COC121-220145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 718 PM MDT FRI JUL 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 745 PM MDT * AT 718 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINDON... OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...WOODLIN SCHOOL...THURMAN...LINDON AND ANTON. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 3979 10355 3957 10355 3958 10296 3980 10310 KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 6:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 6:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 6:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 25 min |
| Jul 21, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 7:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 11:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 12:19 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 12:56 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 1:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 1:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 2:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 2:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.