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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2007, 7:41 PM MDT for Morgan County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2007, 7:41 PM MDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2007, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morgan County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:58 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | 5 N Wiggins, CO | |
| May 3, 8:20 PM MDT | TORNADO | 5 E Weldona, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 3, 6:43 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBOU 040143 TORBOU COC087-040230- /O.NEW.KBOU.TO.W.0020.070504T0141Z-070504T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 741 PM MDT THU MAY 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 830 PM MDT * AT 741 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF WIGGINS...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF FORT MORGAN AND SOUTH OF NEW RAYMER ALONG THE MORGAN...WELD COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WIGGINS... WELDONA...SNYDER...ORCHARD...LOG LANE VILLAGE...JACKSON RESERVOIR...GOODRICH...FORT MORGAN...BRUSH AND ANTELOPE SPRINGS. 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 4052 10414 4008 10414 4013 10357 4052 10350 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KBOU 040158 SVSBOU SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 756 PM MDT THU MAY 3 2007 COC087-040230- /O.CON.KBOU.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-070504T0230Z/ MORGAN CO- 756 PM MDT THU MAY 3 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR MORGAN COUNTY... AT 756 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES EAST OF WIGGINS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF FORT MORGAN. ANOTHER STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF NEW RAYMER ALONG THE MORGAN...WELD COUNTY LINE. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS REMAINING IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WIGGINS...WELDONA...SNYDER...ORCHARD...LOG LANE VILLAGE...JACKSON RESERVOIR...GOODRICH...FORT MORGAN...BRUSH...ANTELOPE SPRINGS AND ADENA SCHOOL. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 4052 10414 4008 10414 4013 10357 4052 10350 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 49 min |
| May 3, 6:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 40 min |
| May 3, 7:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 24 min |
| May 3, 7:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Weld | 48 min |
| May 3, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Weld | 48 min |
| May 3, 8:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan | 47 min |
| May 4, 3:32 PM MDT | Snow Advisory | BOU | Boulder, Grand, Jackson, Larimer | 12 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.