Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1997, 6:33 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min. 6 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 24, 1997, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 7:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:40 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Wild Horse, CO | |
| Jun 24, 6:55 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Kit Carson, CO | |
| Jun 24, 7:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Kit Carson, CO | |
| Jun 24, 7:10 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Firstview, CO | |
| Jun 24, 7:10 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Kit Carson, CO | |
| Jun 24, 7:32 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Firstview, 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 24, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 250033 RRA TORGLD COC017-250135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 633 PM MDT TUE JUN 24 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 735 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED KIT CARSON AROUND 700 PM MDT 8 MILES SOUTH OF KIT CARSON AROUND 715 PM MDT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIT CARSON AROUND 730 PM MDT 7 MILES SOUTH OF FIRST VIEW AROUND 735 PM MDT * AT 632 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 33 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIT CARSON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. GO TO THE B(ASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! DH/KL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 7:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 61 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.