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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 7, 2001Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 5:57 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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: Jun 7, 2001, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 6:00 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Karval, CO	A small tornado touched down but did no damage.

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 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KBOU 072357
TORDEN
COC073-080030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
557 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 557 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR PUNKIN CENTER...OR 
ABOUT   29 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...KARVAL
AND PUNKIN CENTER.

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 3886 10371 3874 10372 3873 10369 3873 10352
          3888 10363

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, 4:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Lincoln	43 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

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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.