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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS

June 29, 1997Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1997, 5:19 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
Jun 29, 1997, 5:19 PM MDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 6:20 PM MDT
In force
61 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 23:19 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 5:29 PM MDTHail 1.75Burlington, 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, 11.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-373 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 292320 RRA
TORGLD
COC063-300020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
519 PM MDT SUN JUN 29 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EXTREME EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 620 PM MDT
 
* TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.

* AT 516 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURLINGTON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN
KIT CARSON COUNTY.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!


STAVISH/TURNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson32 min
Jun 28, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson33 min
Jun 28, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma62 min
Jun 28, 10:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma66 min
Jun 28, 11:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma46 min
Jun 29, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.