Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 1:56 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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 29, 1998, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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 12:00Z, 7.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
370 WUUS1 KGLD 291957 RRA SVRGLD COC017-292100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 156 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 300 PM MDT * AT 156 PM MDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS OR 5 MILES EAST OF KIT CARSON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIT CARSON AROUND 245 PM MDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS EJM/CBE
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 29, 10:59 AM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:59 AM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1059 AM MDT (1159 AM CDT) MON JUN 29 1998 SFC LO OVER CENTRAL CWA IN THE KS ZN 28 VCNTY WITH STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO JUST EAST OF NE ZN 81. SFC FRONT EXPECTED TO SAG SLOWLY SWD THIS AFTN AS SFC LO RETROGRADES SSW TOWARDS LIBERAL KS THIS AFTERNOON WHERE BEST PRESSURE FALLS WILL BE IN INTENSE SFC HEATING. AS A RESULT...WINDS OVER ALL CWA SHOULD SHIFT TO THE NE IN RESPONSE TO CIRCULATION AROUND SFC LO RESULTING IN UPSLOPE FLO BY 00Z TUES. ADJUSTED WINDS ACCORDINGLY. DID DROP TEMPS A CAT IN NRN CWA ALONG NEBRASKA BORDER WHERE UP TO 1/2 INCH OF RAIN FELL OVERNIGHT. MCCOOK SFC OBS DO SHOW A MUCH SLOWER TREND OF WARMING UP. .GLD...NONE. MARTELLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:14 AM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-300600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1014 AM MDT (1114 AM CDT) MON JUN 29 1998 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...MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF A HAIGLER NEBRASKA/COLBY KANSAS/QUINTER KANSAS LINE WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. SYNOPSIS: OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXIST THIS MORNING FROM THUNDERSTORMS WHICH OCCURRED OVERNIGHT ALONG THE KANSAS/NEBRASKA BORDER. A SURFACE LOW EXISTS JUST SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND KANSAS WITH A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING NORTHEAST OF THE SURFACE LOW TOWARDS MCCOOK NEBRASKA. AS A MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE RIDES OVER THESE BOUNDARIES THIS EVENING... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ALONG THE KANSAS/NEBRASKA BORDER WHERE THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO POOL NORTH AND EAST OF THE SURFACE LOW THIS MORNING. THIS MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS AROUND THE CENTURY MARK TO CREATE AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THE BEST VERTICAL WIND SHEAR EXISTS ALONG THE KANSAS/NEBRASKA BORDER WHERE THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. AREAS TO THE SOUTH OF I-70 LOOK TO REMAIN CAPPED WITH WARM TEMPERATUES AT MID LEVELS... HOWEVER AN ISOLATED STORM CANT BE RULED OUT. MARTELLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.