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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

March 7, 2000Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 2000, 3:47 PM MST for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 13 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, 3:47 PM MST (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 4:00 PM MST
In force: 13 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 22:50 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
Mar 7, 3:50 PM MST	Hail 1.25	Laird, 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, 1:00 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

534 
WFUS53 KGLD 072247
TORGLD
COC125-072300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
347 PM MST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 400 PM MST

* AT 347 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  WAUNETA...OR 17 MILES NORTH OF WRAY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA.

* ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...WAUNETA.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OF ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM.

$$

LYNOTT

LAT...LON 4018 10238 4016 10211 4043 10208 4044 10238

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 11:21 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	29 min
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

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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.