Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 4:23 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 29, 1997, 4:23 PM MDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1997, 5:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:15 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Burlington, CO | |
| Jun 29, 5:29 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Burlington, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 292224 RRA SVRGLD COC063-292325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 423 PM MDT SUN JUN 29 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 525 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 8 MILES NORTH OF BETHUNE AROUND 500 PM MDT * AT 422 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON OR 14 MILES NORTH OF VONA MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAVISH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 2:23 PM MDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:23 PM MDT, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 223 PM MDT (323 PM CDT) SUN JUN 29 1997 ...THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...THEN TEMPERATURES MAIN CONCERNS THIS PACKAGE... THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO FIRE THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE TO NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING ALONG TROF. THESE STORMS WILL DRIFT EAST TOWARD THE FA...AND THEN TURN SOUTHEAST ONCE THEY ENTER WESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA PER LATEST PROFILER DATA. ALTHOUGH ALL MODELS FAIRLY SIMILAR...FWC MOS TOO DRY...AS IT HAS BEEN THE LAST TWO RUNS...WHILE FAN POPS FAIRLY CONSISTENT. CONSIDERING INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION...WITH CAPES IN THE 2500 TO 3100 J/KG... LIS OF -10...300MB DIVERGENT FLOW PROGGED OVER THE REGION TONIGHT AND WITH TROF FORECAST TO PUSH EAST...WILL FOLLOW FAN POPS FOR THE FA. HOWEVER...MAY UP POPS OVER EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION. SFC TROF TO EXTEND FROM MCK AREA SOUTH BY 12Z. CONTINUING SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF TROF MAY HELP KEEP SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LINGERING OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA EARLY IN THE SECOND PERIOD...BUT FOR NOW HAVE LEFT POPS OUT. MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW AND SOME CLOUD COVER TO HOLD OVERNIGHT LOWS UP EAST. DRYING AND CLEARING OVER THE WEST WILL RESULT IN TEMPS DROPPING INTO THE MID TO LOWER 60S. EXPECTED PRECIPITATION TONIGHT...ALONG WITH LAST NIGHTS RAINFALL... WILL HAVE AN EFFECT ON FORECAST HIGHS OVER THE AREA...ESPECIALLY THE NORTH. DESPITE A VERY GOOD WARMING AT 850 MB...FLOW GOING TO THE SOUTHWEST OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA...RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND OUTFLOW FROM FORECAST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO HOLD TEMPS DOWN...FOR A SHORT TIME. THIS COOLER AIR WILL DEFINITELY MIX OUT LATER IN THE DAY...BUT TEMPS WONT RECOVER ENOUGH OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF FA TO REACH FWC FORECAST HIGHS. DRIER CONDITIONS AND DOWNSLOPE FLOW OVER THE SOUTHWEST TO ALLOW TEMPS TO BREAK 100...WITH AROUND 100 NORTHWEST. THERE. SOME MORNING CLOUDS AND CONTINUING MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW TO HOLD TEMPS A LITTLE LOWER OVER THE EAST. TROF FINALLY MOVES EAST OF FA WITH DRIER AIR MOVING IN. STRONG WARMING AT 7H TO PREVENT ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE REGION THROUGH 4TH PERIOD DESPITE WEAK FRONT MOVING INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA TUESDAY. STILL...WILL REMAIN WARM OVER THE FA ON TUESDAY ESPECIALLY OVER THE EAST. GLD 064/099/063/095 300 HLC 066/098/068/100 3-0 CBK 065/100/064/096 300 MCK 065/098/066/097 3-0 TRB 065/102/063/095 300 ITR 063/098/062/095 300 TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 8:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 11:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 5:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.