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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1998, 6:04 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. 5 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
- May 22, 1998, 6:04 PM MDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1998, 6:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 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 00:08 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:17 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Vernon, CO | Accompanied by 60 to 70 mph wind. Lasted 10 minutes. |
| May 22, 6:34 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Laird, CO | |
| May 22, 6:35 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Beecher Is, CO | |
| May 22, 6:50 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Wray, CO | Accompanied by winds gusting to 60 mph. |
| May 22, 6:55 PM MDT | Hail 1.88 | Idalia, CO | Accompanied by wind gusting to 68 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
201 WFUS1 KGLD 230003 RRA TORGLD COC125-230050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 604 PM MDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 650 PM MDT * AT 601 PM MDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WRAY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WRAY AROUND 630 PM MDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR VJN/KPL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.