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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 8:42 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1997, 8:42 PM MDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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.
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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
084 WUUS1 KGLD 090243 RRA SVRGLD COC125-090330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 842 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA * AT 842 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAINT FRANCIS OR 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HALE MOVING EAST AT 0 MPH. 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, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:15 PM MDT, 6 hours 27 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, 5 hours 42 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, 5 hours 41 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
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
648 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 26 SW GOVE KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 GOVE
0515 PM 1 W FLAGLER CO 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 KIT CARSON
TURNERLocal storm report, Jul 8, 6:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
648 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 26 SW GOVE KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 GOVE
0515 PM 1 W FLAGLER CO 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 KIT CARSON
TURNERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 7:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 9:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.