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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 2:06 PM MST for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 31, 2000, 2:06 PM MST (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 3:00 PM MST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2:15 PM MST | Hail 1 | Stratton, CO | |
| Oct 31, 2:30 PM MST | Hail 1.75 | Stratton, 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
529 WFUS53 KGLD 312106 TORGLD COC063-312200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 206 PM MST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 300 PM MST * AT 206 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTH OF BETHUNE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BETHUNE AROUND 230 PM MST STRATTON AROUND 235 PM MST VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE AT SCHOOL OR ANOTHER TYPE OF OFFICE BUILDING...MOVE QUICKLY TO THE BASEMENT...INTERIOR HALL...STAIRWELL...OR BATHROOM. DO NOT USE ELEVATORS AND KEEP AWAY FROM THE ENDS OF HALLWAYS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND GLASS DOORWAYS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER IN AUDITORIUMS AND GYMNASIUMS. $$ ENTWISTLE LAT...LON 3904 10258 3903 10243 3957 10229 3957 10274
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 1:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| Oct 31, 1:58 PM MST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Oct 31, 2:26 PM MST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 49 min |
| Oct 31, 3:11 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 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.