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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 298, NWS Goodland, KS

September 16, 2001Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2001, 9:52 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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
Sep 16, 2001, 9:52 PM MDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 2001, 10:45 PM MDT
In force
53 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 03:55 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 16, 10:25 PM MDTHail 1.5Yuma, COHail up to 1 inch deep along Highway 59.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 176 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -214 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-3.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 16, 7:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 7:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
720 PM MDT SUN SEP 16 2001

HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE THUNDERSTORMS IN MOST LOCATIONS.
ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE FAR WEST WITH ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE FAR SOUTH ZONES AS STORMS MOVE EAST
OUT OF EASTERN COLORADO.  AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST...THEY ARE MOVING
INTO A LESS FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT AND ARE DIMINISHING.

.GLD...NONE

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 10:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman59 min
Sep 17, 12:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Thomas67 min
Sep 17, 2:18 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas42 min
Sep 17, 12:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas50 min
Sep 17, 1:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan59 min
Sep 17, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove50 min
Sep 17, 3:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove67 min
Sep 17, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan61 min
Sep 17, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wallace, Wichita60 min
Sep 16, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma51 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.