Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2003, 8:02 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 6, 2003, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2003, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
380 WFUS55 KBOU 070202 TORBOU COC073-070245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 800 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 845 PM MDT * AT 755 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENOA. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS REPORTED JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF GENOA. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...BOYERO... HUGO...KARVAL AND PUNKIN CENTER. 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 3920 10371 3867 10372 3878 10307 3919 10335 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 46 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Colorado, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003
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.