Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 4:49 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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
- May 27, 1997, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 5:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 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 22:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 5:00 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Vona, 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, 10.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
507 WUUS1 KGLD 272248 RRA SVRGLD COC063-272355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 449 PM MDT TUE MAY 27 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 555 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 8 MILES NORTH OF BETHUNE AROUND 515 PM MDT BETHUNE AROUND 525 PM MDT HWY 385...9 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON AROUND 535 PM MDT BURLINGTON AROUND 545 PM MDT * AT 448 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF BETHUNE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BARKER
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 27, 2:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 209 PM MDT (309 PM CDT) TUE MAY 27 1997 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE TO BE PRECIP AND TEMPS THRU THE PCKG... ...SHORT TM... LIGHT N FLOW AT THE SFC SHOULD LET UP TONIGHT AND THEN BECOME SE BY MORNING AS TROF OVER FRONT RANGE EASES EAST TOWARDS KS/CO BORDER BY 12Z. THIS SHOULD KILL WINDS AND WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AROUND...EXPECT SOME FOG TO DEVELOP. WITH THE LIGHT SFC FLOW...EXPECT LOWS TO FALL AROUND DEW PT VALUES. ALL MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT ON UPPER AIR PATTERN BUT TIMING OF NEXT IMPULSE IN NW FLOW IS QUESTIONABLE. WILL LEAN TOWARDS NGM WITH ITS BETTER INITIALIZATION OF SFC FEATURES AND 850 TEMPS. A WEAK S/W TO SPIN OFF OF STUBBORN SYSTEM IN NEBRASKA WITH BEST CHANCE FOR SHOWERS TONIGHT OVER THE WEST HALF OF THE CWA. ...LONG TM... S/W TO CONT MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS CWA THROUGH THE DAY. MOST ENERGY SEEMS TO BE COMING FROM 700 MB WITH SOME WEAK LIFT FROM WEAK JET NOSING IN. THIS MESHES WELL WITH 700-500 QG CONVERGENCE PROGS AND 700 VVS WHICH MOVE INSTABILITY SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 00Z THURS. WITH INVERTED TROF AROUND FROM SFC SYSTEM TO THE SOUTH AND PVA...ENUF LIFT SHOULD RESULT IN CHANCE FOR SHOWERS WITH SOME BREAKS IN CLOUDS HELPING TO DESTABLIZE THINGS A BIT. SHOWERS LOOK BETTER THAN T-STORMS WITH LOW LEVELS BEING STABLE FROM TODAY. PRECIP SHOULD TREND FROM WEST TO EAST AS THE SECOND PD PROGREES. THEN PRECIP CHANCES INCREASE AGAIN DURING THE THIRD PD AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES. WILL KEEP CHC FOR SHOWERS ALL AREAS THIRD PD WITH FRONT HELPING TO INDUCE SOME LIFT. WITH FRONT LAGGING ACROSS THE SE PART OF CWA...WILL KEEP SLGT CHANCE MENTION THERE FOURTH PD. WILL GO ABOUT A HALF CAT OR SO LOWER ON HIGHS THURS FROM WED DUE TO SOME FALLING TCKNS NOTED AND SFC FLO COMING FROM MORE A NELY DIRECTION. WILL FOLLOW FWC FOR THE FIRST 36 HRS BUT THEN LEAN MORE TOWARDS THE FAN FOURTH PD WITH CLOUDS AND WEAK UPSLOPE COMPONENT AROUND. GLD 045/068/048/067 443 HLC 048/070/050/068 -44 CBK 046/069/048/066 443 MCK 046/067/048/066 153 TRB 044/071/046/068 443 ITR 043/067/046/068 432 MARTELLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.