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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 11:21 AM MST for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 11:21 AM MST (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 11:50 AM MST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:28 AM MST | Hail 0.75 | Kit Carson, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:45 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 2314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGLD 071822 SVRGLD COC017-071850- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1121 AM MST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 1150 AM MST * AT 1121 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILD HORSE...OR 43 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AROYA...WILD HORSE AROUND 1140 AM MST * ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...KIT CARSON. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. $$ SKIPPER LAT...LON 3861 10327 3862 10269 3903 10260 3903 10312
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 12:22 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 12:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 1:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 2:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 2:07 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 18 min |
| Mar 7, 2:28 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 2:49 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 3:42 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 3:47 PM MST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 13 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.