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<br /> <br />KBOL <br />Boulder <br /> <br />KERE <br />Denver <br /> <br />KOA & KOA <br />TV Denver <br /> <br />KDEN <br />Denver <br /> <br />KMGH <br />TV <br />Denver <br /> <br />KLAK <br />Lakewood <br /> <br />KWGN-TV <br />Denver <br /> <br />They were carrying a Denver Broncos football game during the <br />warning period. They assume warnings received after the game <br />went out, but they do not log such messages. <br /> <br />Their recollection is that they ran "quite a bit" on Saturday <br />night. First warnings were broadcast after 9:00 p.m. Calls <br />then came in from listeners plus wire service word of event. <br /> <br />They put out weather information at 10:26 p.m. as part of <br />the scheduled 10:00 p.m. news program. <br /> <br />This is Denver's all-news station. Their news director said <br />that they rely heavily on NWWS and ran all messages very hard, <br />repeating them several times each half hour. He felt that <br />the several messages received represented very minimal output <br />from NWS for an event of this magnitude. He also urged that <br />WSFO Denver join into METS, a hotline system in which the <br />forecaster can go directly on the air over every radio station <br />in the Denver metropolitan area and simultaneously reach the <br />warning and emergency action agencies. Insisting he meant no <br />criticism of WSFO-Denver, which he noted was quite cooperative <br />with the media, he said that the office had turned down <br />participation in the METS because the WSFO wasn't staffed to <br />handle the workload. <br /> <br />The station's Denver news director said they first saw an <br />alert about 10:00 or 10:15 p.m. during the late news program. <br />Their reporter and photographer left for the scene soon after <br />the program ended. The station did not run a crawl on the <br />movie and apparently carried nothing about the storm on the <br />news show. <br /> <br />They have no specific record or recollection regarding the <br />warnings, but say they use such information almost immediately, <br />around the clock. <br /> <br />They began at 9:00 p.m. to save copy. The first indication <br />they received came at 9:30 p.m., when they had a report of <br />a severe rain storm near Drake. There were messages at <br />10:30 p.m. about radar reports of severe thunderstorms along <br />the eastern slope of the Front Range. The first specific <br />flash flood warning came at 11:00 p.m. KWGN-TV is Denver's <br />Metromedia channel (2), with a 9:00 p.m. news show. At <br />10:30 p.m. the news staff goes home. They ran no warnings <br />that night. <br /> <br />35 <br />