Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2001, 5:07 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 3, 2001, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2001, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 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 23:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Idalia, CO | Tornado tracked over open country and could be seen for miles. |
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, 11.1 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 032307 TORGLD COC125-032345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 507 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 507 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF IDALIA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BEECHER ISLAND AROUND 535 PM MDT BONNY RESERVOIR...HALE AROUND 545 PM MDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...VERNON...KIRK...JOES AND HEARTSTRON G. 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! $$ LAT...LON 3999 10268 3960 10272 3960 10207 3997 10205 VPAPOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 48 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.