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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 4:32 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 7, 2001, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2001, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBOU 072237 CCA TORDEN COC073-072315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO...CORRECTED 432 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001 CORRECTED MOVEMENT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 432 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. AT 430 PM...A SPOTTER NEAR KARVAL REPORTED A DEVELOPING FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THE STORM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SLOWLY BUILDING TO THE WEST. 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. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3907 10333 3894 10333 3894 10317 3908 10317 COOPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 5:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 5:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 33 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.