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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS

June 12, 1997Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1997, 4:03 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 min. 3 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, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1997, 4:40 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 4:03 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52Burlington Arpt, CO
Jun 12, 4:03 PM MDTTornado F0Burlington, CO
Jun 12, 4:10 PM MDTHail 0.75Burlington, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 12:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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 1997-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 48 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 1997-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 122203 RRA
TORGLD
COC063-122240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
403 PM MDT THU JUN 12 1997

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

* UNTIL 440 PM MDT
 

* AT 403 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 5
MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON.

A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT
AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST XFLOOR!

ENTWISTLE
 

&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 2:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson63 min
Jun 12, 2:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson63 min
Jun 12, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson50 min
Jun 12, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne63 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.