Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 10:17 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 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, 10:17 PM MDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBOU 290418 TORDEN COC073-290445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1017 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 1045 PM MDT * AT 1017 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUGO... OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...HUGO. 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 3921 10371 3888 10371 3890 10340 3922 10348 KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 45 min |
| May 28, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 28, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 30 min |
| May 28, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 42 min |
| May 28, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 34 min |
| May 28, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 30 min |
| May 28, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 28 min |
| May 28, 8:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 39 min |
| May 28, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 50 min |
| May 28, 8:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 28, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 40 min |
| May 28, 9:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 39 min |
| May 28, 10:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert | 31 min |
| May 28, 10:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 28, 11:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 28, 11:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 29, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 40 min |
| May 29, 2:42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.