Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2005, 3:50 PM MDT for Adams County, Morgan County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2005, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, CO, Morgan County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 022151
TORBOU
COC001-087-022230-
/O.NEW.KBOU.TO.W.0009.050602T2150Z-050602T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
350 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
SOUTHWESTERN MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 430 PM MDT
* AT 349 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
NEAR HOYT...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TWELVE-MILE
CORNER...SHAMROCK...LEADER...HOYT...ADENA SCHOOL AND ADENA.
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 4001 10414 3980 10418 3985 10372 4016 10370
4010 10401
$$
BARJENBRUCH1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS55 KBOU 022159
SVSBOU
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
358 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005
COC001-087-022230-
/O.CON.KBOU.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050602T2230Z/
MORGAN CO-ADAMS CO-
358 PM MDT THU JUN 2 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR EASTERN ADAMS AND
SOUTHWESTERN MORGAN COUNTIES...
AT 353 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
LEADER...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT MORGAN. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST/NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER SHORT LIVED FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS
SOUTHWESTERN MORGAN COUNTY NEAR HOYT.
LOCATIONS REMAINING IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TWELVE-MILE CORNER...SHAMROCK...LEADER...HOYT...ADENA SCHOOL AND
ADENA.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 4001 10414 3980 10418 3985 10372 4016 10370
4010 10401
$$
BARJENBRUCHThe 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, 3:58 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, 4:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert | 39 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.