Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 4:41 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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
- Apr 6, 2001, 4:41 PM MDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 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 22:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:55 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wray, 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, 10.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 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 062242
SVRGLD
COC125-062345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
441 PM MDT FRI APR 6 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 545 PM MDT
* AT 433 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUNETA TO 4
MILES SOUTH OF IDALIA...OR FROM 21 MILES NORTH OF WRAY TO 23 MILES
NORTH OF BURLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HALE...WRAY AT 450 PM MDT
BEECHER ISLAND AT 505 PM MDT
LAIRD AT 510 PM MDT
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...VERNON...ECKLEY AND BONNY
RESERVOIR.
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.
$$
LAT...LON 4044 10250 4013 10250 3956 10249 3959 10209
4044 10210
THEDEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 54 min |
| Apr 6, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 54 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.