Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 5:07 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 8, 1997, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 6:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 23:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:15 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Flagler, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 082307 RRA SVRGLD COC063-090010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 507 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 610 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA * AT 505 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 31 MILES EAST OF LIMON OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLAGLER. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! TURNER
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 Jul 8, 2:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 215 PM MDT (315 PM CDT) TUE JUL 8 1997 ...PROBLEM OF DAY THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT... SOUNDINGS...SAT DERIVED PRODUCTS...ADAP...ETC HAVE AREA EXTREMELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH ERODING CAP. WINDS HAVE GONE UPSLOPE WITH MORE INFLOW OF ADDITIONAL UNSTABLE AIR IN RESPONSE TO SMALL LOW SOUTHERN PORTION OF CWA. MORNING CLOUDS AND EARLIER STORMS HAVE LEFT SOME BOUNDARIES OVER THE AREA. SO...WE SHOULD SEE A LOT OF CONVECTION ONCE CAP BREAKS. ALSO...OFTEN IN THIS PATTERN STUFF THAT FORMS OVER CO BECOMES MORE WIDESPREAD AS IT MOVES INTO MORE UNSTABLE AIR DOWN THE HILL. WILL GO WELL ABOVE GUIDANCE. SEVERE STORMS MORE PROBLEMATIC IN ABSENCE OF MUCH SHEAR...BUT WITH CAPES AT LEAST 3500 PULSY STUFF WITH NUISANCE SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. AFTER TONIGHT...DRIER WITH ALL MODELS AGREEING ABOUT RIDGE BUILDING ALOFT AS BIG SYSTEM IN SOUTHWEST TRIES TO NUDGE THINGS EAST. WAS NOT WILLING TO UNDERCUT 20-30 POPS WED NIGHT DUE TO UNCERTAINTY WE HAVE HAD WITH NOCTURNAL PRECIP LATELY. FOR TEMPS MOS HAS BEEN TOO COOL DAYS AND GOOD NIGHTS LATELY. EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE UNTIL REGIME CHANGES MORE. KWIATKOWSKI
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
COZ090>092-082305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA FROM THE WEST DURING THE EVENING. THE AIR OVER THE REGION IS VERY UNSTABLE...SO SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. JJK
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
COZ090>092-082305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA FROM THE WEST DURING THE EVENING. THE AIR OVER THE REGION IS VERY UNSTABLE...SO SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION OR CABLE T ELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. JJK
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.