Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2002, 2:13 PM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2002, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2002, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:30 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Cedar Pt, CO | |
| Jun 3, 2:43 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Cedar Pt, CO | |
| Jun 3, 3:04 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Limon, CO |
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 3, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 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 032013 TORDEN COC039-073-032100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 213 PM MDT MON JUN 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LIMON * UNTIL 300 PM MDT * AT 213 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF AGATE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...AGATE...CEDAR POINT...LIMON AND MATHESON. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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 3954 10410 3916 10409 3916 10356 3955 10356 KLEYLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 1:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 2:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 3:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 3:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 4:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 5:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.