Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2001, 3:45 PM MDT for Logan County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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 29, 2001, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2001, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Logan County, CO
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBOU 292148 TORDEN COC075-292215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 345 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF STERLING * UNTIL 415 PM MDT * AT 345 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED SEVERAL SMALL TORNADOES BETWEEN STERLING RESERVOIR AND PADRONI OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF STERLING. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THESE WEAK TORNADOES WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... STERLING...ILIFF...PADRONI AND PROCTOR. 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN DENVER. LAT...LON 4083 10325 4052 10325 4048 10289 4085 10286 BAKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 1:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 2:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.