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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

April 30, 2003Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 1:18 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 2003, 1:18 PM MDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2003, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 12:00Z on 2003-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 446 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 12:00Z on 2003-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

072 
WFUS55 KBOU 301918
TORBOU
COC073-302015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
ISSUED BY NWS PUEBLO CO
117 PM MDT WED APR 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM MDT

* AT 117 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A
  RAPIDLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 10
  MILES NORTH OF BOYERO...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON...    
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 40.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  BOYERO AROUND 125 PM MDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY
IN THE WARNED AREA.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...OR IN A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...AND A
TORNADO IS VERY NEAR...GO TO A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING AND GET IN
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3919 10333 3902 10343 3873 10319 3925 10318

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld67 min
Apr 29, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Douglas, Elbert46 min
Apr 29, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUMorgan65 min
Apr 29, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWeld48 min
Apr 29, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe61 min
Apr 29, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert55 min
Apr 29, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert52 min
Apr 29, 7:16 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUMorgan44 min
Apr 29, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Weld54 min
Apr 29, 7:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert43 min
Apr 29, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington60 min
Apr 29, 8:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUArapahoe, Elbert46 min
Apr 29, 9:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington29 min
Apr 29, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln, Washington62 min
Apr 29, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUSedgwick44 min
Apr 29, 9:27 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWashington48 min
Apr 30, 1:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULincoln58 min
Apr 30, 2:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULarimer33 min
Apr 30, 4:15 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUWeld60 min
Apr 30, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Denver59 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.