Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1997, 4:05 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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 23, 1997, 4:05 PM MDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1997, 5:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 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 22:06 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 23, 4:40 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Seibert, 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, 10.1 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 232206 RRA SVRGLD COC063-232310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 405 PM MDT SAT AUG 23 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 510 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HWY 59...8 MILES NORTH OF SEIBERT AROUND 500 PM MDT * AT 406 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURL>INGTON OR 17 MILES NORTH OF SEIBERT MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 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 Aug 23, 1:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 1:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 155 PM MDT (255 PM CDT) SAT AUG 23 1997 WILL BE WAITING TIL LAST MINUTE TO RELEASE ZONES THIS AFTERNOON IN ORDER TO BETTER DEFINE COUNTIES IN NEED OF ISOLATED TSRA MENTION FOR THIS EVENING. VISIBLE IMAGERY AND EYES OUT THE WINDOW SHOW CU DEVELOPING ALONG BOUNDARY FROM NORTHEAST CORNER OF COLORADO TO COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY. WEAKER CU NOTED IN GREELEY...WICHITA...AND LOGAN COUNTIES /A FAVORED AREA TO INITIATE CONVECTION IN SOUTH-SOUTHEAST FLOW/ BUT WINDS ARE NOT UNIFORMLY FROM 160 DEGREES AS OF THE 19Z OBS. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH AMPLIFYING RIDGE AND D-PROG/D-T TREND OF SLOWING PACIFIC AIR ARRIVAL...SO HAVE BLENDED SOLUTIONS FOR THIS PACKAGE WITH IDEA THAT WIND SHIFT WILL OCCUR MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS FA. BEST DYNAMICS APPEAR TO REMAIN NORTH OF AREA...SO WILL STAY IN LINE WITH LOW FWC/FAN POPS IN OUT PERIODS. GUIDANCE TEMPS APPEAR REASONABLE...ALTHOUGH DAY 2 MAXES WILL BE TOO COOL IF UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS EITHER DO NOT ARRIVE OR REMAIN TOO THIN TO BLOCK SUNSHINE. NO MENTION OF CLOUDS OR FOG FOR THIS PACKAGE AS EASTERN HALF OF CWA HAS HAD ANOTHER DAY TO DRY OUT AND FLOW IN THE EARLY MORNING WILL EITHER PARALLEL TERRAIN OR HAVE DRAINAGE COMPONENT TO IT. .GLD...NONE. ENTWISTLE
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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.