Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2005, 4:36 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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 2, 2005, 4:36 PM MDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2005, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elbert County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 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 022236 TORBOU COC039-022315- /O.NEW.KBOU.TO.W.0011.050602T2236Z-050602T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 436 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 433 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIOWA...OR ABOUT 37 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DENVER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KIOWA. 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 3955 10439 3933 10456 3924 10406 3957 10403 $$ BARJENBRUCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KBOU 022255 SVSBOU SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 455 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 COC039-022315- /O.CON.KBOU.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050602T2315Z/ ELBERT CO- 455 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL ELBERT COUNTY... AT 453 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIOWA...OR ABOUT 29 MILES WEST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE WARNED COUNTY. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3955 10439 3936 10443 3924 10402 3954 10401 $$ BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 68 min |
| Jun 1, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Denver | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 2:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOU | Denver | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Boulder, Larimer | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 3:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Morgan | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Larimer, Weld | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 4:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 5:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 5:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 5:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 48 min |
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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.