Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Goodland, KS

September 6, 1997Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1997, 7:30 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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
Sep 6, 1997, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Sep 6, 6:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 6:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
627 PM MDT (727 PM CDT) SAT SEP 6 1997

MCS DEVELOPMENT SEEMS LIKELY PER MESOANALYSIS...RADAR IMAGERY AND
SATELLITE IR LOOPS...ESPECIALLY AREAS IN THETA-E RIDGE N OF I-70
CORRIDOR. ALSO...LOCAL AREA SOUNDINGS SHOW DRY LOW LVLS UP TO 7
AND 8 KFT...SO DID PUT IN GUSTY WIND MENTIONS TOO. SAW NO REASON TO
WAIT ANY FURTHUR TO INCREASE POPS...ESPECIALLY NW CWA.

MARTELLO

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 6, 5:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
428 PM MST SAT SEP 06 1997

TIME(MST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0350 PM    VERNON                    CO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/06/97   YUMA                           SPOTTER ESTIMATED WINDS OF
                                          AT LEAST 60 MPH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman45 min
Sep 6, 8:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman46 min

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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.