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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

May 28, 2001Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 8:59 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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
May 28, 2001, 8:59 PM MDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2001, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 28, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KBOU 290259
TORDEN
COC073-290330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
859 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 857 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF FORDER...OR
  ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...FORDER
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.

LAT...LON 3885 10395 3862 10395 3862 10361 3886 10360

KLEYLA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld45 min
May 28, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln45 min
May 28, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams30 min
May 28, 6:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld42 min
May 28, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Denver34 min
May 28, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert30 min
May 28, 7:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams28 min
May 28, 8:21 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln39 min
May 28, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert50 min
May 28, 9:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln40 min
May 28, 9:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert39 min
May 28, 10:17 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln28 min
May 28, 10:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert31 min
May 28, 10:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln30 min
May 28, 11:16 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln29 min
May 28, 11:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln30 min
May 29, 2:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld40 min
May 29, 2:42 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.