Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 10:40 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 14, 1997, 10:40 PM MDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 11:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 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 150440 RRA SVRGLD COC125-150525- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1040 PM MDT SAT JUN 14 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 1125 PM MDT * TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA. * AT 1039 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF WRAY OR 20 MILES NxORTHEAST OF ECKLEY. DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! MENTZER
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 14, 2:22 PM MDT, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:22 PM MDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 222 PM MDT (322 PM CDT) SAT JUN 14 1997 CHANCES FOR RAIN EACH PERIOD MAIN CONCERN FOR THIS PACKAGE. MODELS ARE RATHER SIMILAR...BUT MINOR DIFFS CREATE HAVOC WITH TIMING OF PRECIP AND LOCATION OF FRONT ON SUNDAY. HAVE LEANED TO AVN BASED ON SLIGHTLY BETTER H70 THERMAL INITIALIZATION AND 6-HOUR SURFACE PRESSURE VERIFICIATION. THUS QUESTION BECOMES WHERE AND WHEN WILL PRECIP FALL. LOOKS LIKE COLORADO COUNTIES UNDER THE GUN FOR SEVERE AFTER 00 UTC...BUT WITH LOSS OF HEATING SEVERITY PROBABILITY SHOULD DROP OFF DRAMATICALLY. SOME STORMS MAY WORK INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...BUT BETTER DYNAMICS SHOW UP SUNDAY BEHIND FROPA. WILL BLEND FAN AND FWC POPS AND LEAN TO FAN TEMPS. NGM SEEMED MORE REALISTIC WITH MOISTURE FIELDS THAN AVN...HENCE THE TENDENCY SPLIT. GLD 058/080/052/071/051 4353 HLC 060/085/057/077/053 2543 CBK 058/081/052/072/051 4353 MCK 059/083/054/076/051 2543 TRB 058/082/052/073/052 4553 ITR 056/079/051/070/050 4253 ENTWISTLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:41 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
COZ090>092-150345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 741 PM MDT SAT JUN 14 1997 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR KIT CARSON AND YUMA COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM MDT... THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED OVER CHEYENNE COUNTY...SO THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED THERE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR YUMA AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST OVER EASTERN COLORADO. AT 735 PM MDT THE STORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. THIS STORM MAY REACH YUMA COUNTY LATER THIS EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
COZ090-091-150510- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 906 PM MDT SAT JUN 14 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO EXPIRED AT 9 PM MDT... THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY GENERALLY WAS DECREASING OVER EASTERN COLORADO THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED. HOWEVER...ONE LAST ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL ALONG THE NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY BORDER THROUGH 930 MDT. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
COZ090-091-150510- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 906 PM MDT SAT JUN 14 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO EXPIRED AT 9 PM MDT... THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY GENERALLY WAS DECREASING OVER EASTERN COLORADO THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED. HOWEVER...ONE LAST ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL ALONG TTHE NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY BORDER THROUGH 930 MDT. MENTZER
Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:58 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
958 PM MDT SAT JUN 14 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0949 PM 26 MILES OF ECKLEY CO .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/97 YUMA NEAR NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY
BORDER
MENTZERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.