Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2007, 3:49 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 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
- May 22, 2007, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2007, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 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 222149 TORBOU COC073-222215- /O.NEW.KBOU.TO.W.0039.070522T2149Z-070522T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 349 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 415 PM MDT * AT 349 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF BOYERO...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIMON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BOYERO. 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 3905 10362 3877 10361 3879 10318 3907 10317 $$ RJK
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KBOU 222214 SVSBOU SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 415 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 2007 COC073-222222- /O.EXP.KBOU.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-070522T2215Z/ LINCOLN CO- 415 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY EXPIRED AT 415 PM MDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS EXITED THE AREA. LAT...LON 3905 10362 3877 10361 3879 10318 3907 10317 $$ RJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 50 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.