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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS

May 2, 1991Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1991, 3:17 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 1991, 3:17 PM MDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 1991, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 2, 4:15 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Lincoln, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 2:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

KSZ001-002-022115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
213 PM MDT (313 PM CDT) THU MAY 2 1991

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM MDT FOR NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL
KANSAS WEST OF A ATWOOD TO SCOTT CITY LINE...

AT 210PM MDT NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED BY
RADAR OVER NORTHWEST OR WESTCENTRAL KANSAS.

HOWEVER...THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER WESTERN KANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

PEOPLE ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO DEVELOPING WEATHER
CONDTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING,  STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR
LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

FREIBURGER

Special weather statement, May 2, 3:01 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	36 min
May 2, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	39 min
May 2, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Elbert	66 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.