Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 4:35 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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
- May 22, 1997, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1997, 5:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 222240 COR SVRGLD COC017-222335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORR TO WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 435 PM MDT THU MAY 22 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 535 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILD HORSE AROUND 440 PM MDT 8 MILES NORTH OF WILD HORSE AROUND 510 PM MDT * AT 435 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 39 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS OR IN THE VICINITY OF AROYA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ESTIMATES RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. VOJTESAK
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 May 22, 2:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO CCF PORTION /TRB/... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 251 PM MDT (351 PM CDT) THU MAY 22 1997 ...RAINFALL BIG CONCERN THROUGH 3RD PERIOD... COMBINATION OF A STRONG SHWV...LEE TROF...AND SUBTROPICAL MSTR WILL INFLUENCE CWA INTO 3RD PD. ALL MODELS CLOSE WITH FEATURES HWVR ETA IS MODEL OF CHOICE DUE TO BEST INITIALIZATION. FIRST PROB IS RAINFALL DURING FIRST PD. HIGH DWPTS ACROSS AREA AS WELL AS HIGH PW VALUES FROM DDC/DNR/LBF SOUNDINGS SHOW FAIRLY SATURATED AIRMASS. EVEN THO DRY SLOT WORKING ITS WAY NORTH...EXPECT THAT CLEARING WILL FILL IN WITH SHOWERS AND TSTORMS. FEEL THAT ETA HAS GOOD HANDLE ON LIFT AHD OF SHWV AND RESULTING QPF...SO AM GOING WITH POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT. QPFERD STATES FFG MAY BE EXCEEDED BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON HDLN. HAS BEEN DRY HERE AND SOIL SHOULD BE ABLE TO SOAK UP MOST OF RAINFALL. WILL LV HDLN TO NEXT SHIFT ON REVIEW OF NEXT MODEL RUN. PER ETA 850-500 QVECT CONV FIELD...EXPECT WIDESPREAD RAIN TO CONTINUE INTO FRI MORN. AS SYSTEM WINDS UP AND MOVES NE...EXPECT SOME SUN BEHIND DEVELOPED FRONTAL BOUNDARY. HWVR...MSTR WILL BE SLOW TO RETREAT AND SOAKED GROUND SHOULD BE PLENTY TO HELP FIRE SOME AFTERNOON TSTRMS WITH HEATING. TSTRMS SHOULD CONT INTO EVENING HOURS THUS POPS THIRD PD. STUCK CLOSE TO MOS GUID DUE TO SIMILARITY IN FEATURES. HWVR...FEEL THAT MOS WAY TOO HIGH 4TH PD. GLD 052/075/051/079 955 HLC 057/075/054/081 955 CBK 053/077/R051/080 955 MCK 055/072/051/080 955 TRB 054/078/052/081 955 ITR 049/074/052/078 950 GONSOWSKI/BARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 10:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-230600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1037 AM MDT (1137 AM CDT) THU MAY 22 1997 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED SOUTHWEST OF A YUMA COLORADO / GOODLAND KANSAS / RUSSELL SPRINGS KANSAS LINE. SYNOPSIS: A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH THIS SYSTEM IS RELATIVELY STRONG...MOST OF THE AREA REMAINS RATHER COOL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...HOWEVER THE KEY TO WHETHER ANY OF THE THESE STORMS SURPASS SEVERE THRESHOLDS WILL BE WHETHER ...AND IF SO...HOW MUCH SUNSHINE WILL OCCUR TO HEAT THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. AN AREA OF CLEARING OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO MAY MOVE INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON PROVIDING THE HEATING REQUIRED TO DESTABALIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THIS AREA OF CLEARING AND MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAIL LARGER THAN AN INCH AND WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MPH MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. THE STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE INTO THE COOLER AIR OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO...NORTHWEST KANSAS...AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. HOWEVER...SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE GENERALLY SOUTHWEST OF A YUMA COLORADO / GOODLAND KANSAS / RUSSELL SPRINGS LINE. BARKER
Special weather statement, May 22, 4:16 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
COZ092-KSZ027-028-041-042-230520- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 414 PM MDT THU MAY 22 1997 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT) FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... A STRONG UPPER-AIR DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO AND ABUNDANT LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS WILL COMBINE TO BRING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE HIGH PLAINS THIS EVENING. THE LOW LEVEL WINDS COUPLED WITH THE INTENSE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO...CABLE TELEVISION...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. VOJTESAK
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.