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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2000, 9:51 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 19, 2000, 9:51 PM MDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 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 03:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 10:05 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Idalia, CO | Brief touchdown of weak Tornado. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 200351 TORGLD COC125-200430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 951 PM MDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1030 PM MDT * AT 951 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VERNON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF WRAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BONNY RESERVOIR AROUND 1020 PM MDT VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ LAT...LON 4002 10228 3987 10242 3958 10218 3976 10206
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Jul 19, 9:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 10:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 60 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.