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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2004, 3:32 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
- Jul 22, 2004, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2004, 4:15 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 Denver radar (KFTG), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 1:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 222132 TORBOU COC073-222215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 330 PM MDT THU JUL 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 415 PM MDT * AT 330 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF GENOA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...GENOA AND HUGO. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS WITH LOCAL FLOODING OF FIELDS AND ROADWAYS. LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. 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 3949 10340 3942 10364 3909 10367 3914 10320 $$ DANKERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 12:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 1:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 1:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 4:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 2 hr |
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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.