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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1999, 5:27 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado; Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 31, 1999, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1999, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 312327 RRA TORGLD COC063-KSC199-010015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 527 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 523 PM MDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF BETHUNE... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT... RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA THIS WARNING CONTINUES THE PREVIOUS WARNING. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! THEDE &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 31, 2:31 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:31 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 225 PM MDT (325 PM CDT) MON MAY 31 1999 ...CHALLENGES IN FIRST PD...TYPE...SEVERITY AND AMOUNT OF PRECIP... SAT PICS AND 18Z SFC MAP SHOW STUBBORN LOW CLOUDINESS HANGING ON OVER ENTIRE CWA. RESULT...TEMPS OVER ENTIRE CWA STILL IN 50S AND LOW 60S. SAT PICS SHOW PARTIAL CLEARING ADVANCING INTO FAR EASTERN CO ATTM...BUT SLOWLY. GLD 88D VWP SHOWS STEADY WINDS UP TO 25K...SO LOTS OF CLOUDS STILL UP THERE. HOWEVER SHOULD SEE PARTIAL CLEARING WITHING NEXT FEW HOURS TO ALLOW AT LEAST SOME PM HEATING. THIS AM 88D VWP SHOWED NOTICEABLE HT VEERING CONTRIBUTING TO HELICITY. HOWEVER AT CURRENT TIME DIRECTION CHANGE WITH HT DECREASING BUT SPEED CHANGE INCREASING WITH HT WITH NEAR 60 KT JET AT 25K ATTM. ETA INITIALIZED BEST AT SFC AND 50H THIS AM SO AM GOING WITH IT. WITH ALL OF CWA STILL IN SLIGHT RISK BUT CLOUDINESS HOLDING TEMPS DOWN THROUGH THE AFTERNOON KEEPING LOWER LEVELS SOMEWHAT STABLE CHALLENGE BECOMES WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TSTMS THAT DEVELOP IN CO AND MOVE INTO AREA THIS EVENING. ETA BRINGS VORT MAX INTO NW KS IN LATE EVENING AND MOVES E ACROSS NRN PTN OF CWA. THINK THIS WILL INSTIGATE TSTMS IN NE CO WHICH...AS THEY MOVE ENE INTO MORE MOISTURE LADEN AIR...WILL RESULT IN MCC/MCS DEVELOPMENT NEAR NE PTN OF MY CWA(NEAR NC KS/SC NEB BORDER AFTER MID-NIGHT). ETA WOULD KEEP COLDER AIR ALOFT JUST TO NORTH OF MY CWA. ALSO APPEARS MDT RISK TO STAY S OF MY CWA WITH HEAVIER STORMS TO DEVELOP IN SE CO AS RESULT OF ANOTHER VORT MAX IN THAT AREA TO MOVE INTO AREAS JUST S OF CWA. REGARDLESS WITH PLENTIFUL MOISTURE AVAILABLE...ETA MOVING MOD VORT MAX ACROSS NRN PTN CWA DURING NIGHT WITH UVV MAX MOVING ACROSS AREA WITH IT...LOOK FOR TSTM NIGHT WITH MAX NUMBER AND RAINFALL E OF A LINE FROM NEAR TRENTON NEB TO VCNTY QUINTER KS. DRIER AIR SWEEPS INTO CWA FROM NW ON TUES AS UPPER S/W MOVES INTO E KS. SUBSIDENCE AND BRIEF RIDGE APPEARS WILL MOVE IN AND BRING FAIR WEATHER TO CWA INTO WEDS. ON WEDS BEGIN TO SEE INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS AND RETURN OF CHANCE OF LATE PM/EARLY EVEN TSTMS AS SW FLOW ALOFT RETURNS TO AREA. IN EXTENDED LONG WAVE INTENSIFIES OVER INTRA-MT WEST WITH SW FLOW ALOFT OVER HIGH PLAINS. OCCASIONAL S/WS SHOULD MOVE OUT OF L/W OVER THE PD RESULT IN CHANCE OF TSTMS THROUGHOUT PD AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPS. .GLD...NONE. RJC
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 31, 5:06 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
506 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 11 SE VONA CO FUNNEL CLOUD
05/31/99 KIT CARSON
SVENLocal storm report, May 31, 5:06 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
506 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 11 SE VONA CO FUNNEL CLOUD
05/31/99 KIT CARSON
SVENLocal storm report, May 31, 5:25 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
525 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0521 PM 10 S VONA CO 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/99 KIT CARSON
SVENLocal storm report, May 31, 5:25 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
525 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0521 PM 10 S VONA CO 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/99 KIT CARSON
SVENLocal storm report, May 31, 5:27 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
527 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0524 PM 4 S VONA CO .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/99 KIT CARSON
SVENLocal storm report, May 31, 5:27 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
527 PM MDT MON MAY 31 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0524 PM 4 S VONA CO .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/99 KIT CARSON
SVENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 45 min |
| May 31, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| May 31, 4:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 50 min |
| May 30, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 50 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.