Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1997, 2:32 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 4 reports 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
- Jun 12, 1997, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1997, 3:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 20:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Flagler, CO | |
| Jun 12, 2:50 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Seibert, CO | |
| Jun 12, 3:20 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Vona, CO | |
| Jun 12, 3:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Stratton, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 122031 RRA SVRGLD COC063-122135- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 232 PM MDT THU JUN 12 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 335 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SEIBERT AROUND 245 PM MDT VONA AROUND 305 PM MDT STRATTON AROUND 325 PM MDT * AT 231 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 38 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEIBERT MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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 Jun 12, 1:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 106 PM MDT (206 PM CDT) THU JUN 12 1997 BIGGEST CHALLANGE TDA IS POPS FOR 1ST PD. SVRL FACTORS COMING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT HI POPS TNGT. CNVTN ALREADY STG NR LIC AND XPCD TO DVLP EWD ALG PALMER DIVIDE THRU RMNDR OF THE AFTN. THE BOUNDARIES LAID DN BY THIS STM WL LKLY INTERACT WITH THE PLETHERA OF BOUNDARIES LEFT BEHIND FM YDAS STMS. THE MOST PRONOUNCED BNDRY IS LCTD JUST S OF FA. ONE ROUND OF SCT ACTVTY IS LKLY LT THIS AFTN AND ERL THIS EVE IN WRN AND SRN ZNS DUE TO THERMAL FORCING. NXT ROUND SHOULD COME LT TNGT AND ERL FRI AS FAIRLY STG SW CURRENTLY OVR WRN NEW MEXICO MOVES INTO FA. ETA SEEMS A BIT TOO FAST AND WK WITH THIS SYS AND FAVOR NGM/AVN HANDLING. BTR COVERAGE BUT LESS STRENGTH TO THE CNVTN IS LKLY AS THIS DYNAMIC FORCING AFFECTS THE AREA. WL GO WITH GD CHC OR LKLY MOST ZNS. IN ADDITION...UPSLP FLOW SHOULD ADD A POTENTIAL OF FOG TO RGN. TOMORROWS FORCING SHOULD BE SIMILAR IN TIMING JUST NOT AS STG. MORNING FOG AND CLDS SHOULD KEEP BEST THERMAL FORCING CONFINED TO CO ZNS AND INCOMING WV APPRS WKER. WL FOLLOW A GEN DRYING TREND THRU PACKAGE WITH CUTOFF LOW REMAINING W OF AREA BEYOND PACKAGE PD. ONCE AGN CONCERNED THE MODELS MAY NOT BE TIMING EJECTED WVS CORRECTLY... SO WL NEED TO BROADBRUSH A BIT. FWCS SEEM A BIT HI TMW ERN ZNS AND ALL BUT EXTRM SW ZNS ON SAT GVN CONTINUED UPSLP FLOW AND CLDS. WL UNDERCUT HI TEMPS ACCORDINGLY. GLD 057/075/055/082 6532 HLC 058/075/057/081 5522 CBK 057/075/056/081 6532 MCK 057/074/056/081 5522 TRB 057/077/055/083 6532 ITR 056/076/055/084 6333 BARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:41 AM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-130600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 942 AM MDT THU JUN 12 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...PARTICULARLY SOUTHWEST OF A WRAY COLORADO / OAKLEY KANSAS / QUINTER KANSAS LINE. SYNOPSIS: MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER THE REGION TODAY AND WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 BY MIDDLE AFTERNOON...AND THEN BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST AFTER DARK AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE BIGGESTZ THREAT. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:42 AM MDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-130600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 942 AM MDT THU JUN 12 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...PARTICULARLY SOUTHWEST OF A WRAY COLORADO / OAKLEY KANSAS / QUINTER KANSAS LINE. SYNOPSIS: MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER THE REGION TODAY AND WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 BY MIDDLE AFTERNOON...AND THEN BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST AFTER DARK AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE BIGGEST THREAT. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 11:53 AM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
COZ090>092-122100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1153 AM MDT THU JUN 12 1997 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO EFFECTIVE UNTIL 6 PM... A MOIST UNSTABLE AIR MASS REMAINS ENTRENCHED ACROSS EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO AT MIDDAY. AS ABUNDANT SUNSHINE DESTABALIZES THE ATMOSPHERE...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO. THE WIND SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE A THREAT OF TORNADOES...AS WELL AS...LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 55 MPH. THIS TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON... AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES. 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. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 4:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.