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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 2:20 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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
- May 29, 2001, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Kit Carson, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 292021 TORGLD COC017-292100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 220 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 300 PM MDT * AT 220 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER WILD HORSE...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTH OF FLAGLER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...KIT CARSON. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO! SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ LAT...LON 3901 10258 3897 10313 3863 10313 3865 10256 SKIPPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 67 min |
| May 29, 1:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 62 min |
| May 29, 11:40 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 50 min |
| May 29, 12:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 38 min |
| May 29, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| May 29, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 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.