Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1997, 8:28 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 16, 1997, 8:28 PM MDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1997, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 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 02:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Kit Carson, 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 00:00Z, 2.5 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
- 1611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 170230 RRA SVRGLD COC017-170315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 828 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 915 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KIT CARSON AROUND 850 PM MDT 7 MILES SOUTH OF FIRST VIEW AROUND 915 PM MDT * AT 825 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF KIT CARSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! MARTELLO p
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 Aug 16, 8:23 PM MDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 8:23 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 823 PM MDT (923 PM CDT) SAT AUG 16 1997 THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO SLOW TO MOVE THIS EVENING PER GLD 88D. HOWEVER...MODELS INDICATE LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E RIDGE POSN ALG CO-KS BORDER. WITH NE SFC WINDS AND HIER DEWPOINTS ADVECTING INTO W PARTS OF CWA...WILL INCREASE POP CHANCES AND MENTION TSTMS FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT. WOULD EXPECT SOME STORMS TO LOSE INTENSITY BUT MAKE EASTWARD PROGRESSION THRU 06Z. NGM/ETA ALSO PUTS SOME QPF IN CWA UP TIL 12Z AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE HIER AMOUNTS ACROSS FAR E COLORADO. HAVE GENERALLY LEFT TEMPS AND WIND SPEEDS ALONE AS UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED BY 0230Z. .GLD...NONE. KPL
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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.