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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 20, 2001Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2001, 6:25 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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 20, 2001, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 35 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 20, 3:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

661 
WFUS55 KBOU 210026
TORDEN
COC073-210100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
625 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LIMON

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 625 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF GENOA...OR
  ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...GENOA...
HUGO AND LIMON.

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.

RTG
LAT...LON 3920 10372 3909 10365 3909 10336 3929 10332
          3937 10371

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	43 min
Jun 20, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Denver	43 min
Jun 20, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	43 min
Jun 20, 7:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Denver	34 min
Jun 20, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	45 min
Jun 20, 7:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver	28 min
Jun 20, 7:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver	33 min
Jun 20, 8:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Elbert	37 min
Jun 20, 8:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BOU	Elbert	37 min
Jun 20, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert	29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.