Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT for Arapahoe County, Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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 16, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Arapahoe County, CO, Elbert County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
040 WFUS55 KBOU 170130 TORBOU COC005-039-170215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 730 PM MDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO EAST CENTRAL ARAPAHOE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 815 PM MDT * AT 730 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEER TRAIL...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...AGATE AND DEER TRAIL. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. 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 3957 10425 3946 10419 3946 10388 3971 10388 $$ GIMMESTAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 1:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Douglas | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 30 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.