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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2000, 10:23 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 19, 2000, 10:23 PM MDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 11:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 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 04:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 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 200426 TORGLD COC125-KSC023-181-200515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1123 PM CDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO SOUTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS NORTHWESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT(1115 PM MDT) * AT 1123 PM CDT(1023 PM MDT)...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA IN FAR SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. ALSO THE TORNADO WILL BE INTO NORTH SHERMAN COUNTY WITHIN 20 MINUTES AND NEAR GOODLAND BEFORE 1045 PM MDT. IF YOU ARE IN THIS PATH TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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! 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. $$ LAT...LON 3982 10206 3967 10220 3941 10177 3961 10159
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, 9:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 39 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 |
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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.